Installation

Instructions

Install the Basilisk spacecraft simulation framework, following instructions for the appropriate operating system. Installation on MacOS and Linux is preferable to Windows. Use a Python virtual environment as suggested in the Basilisk installation instructions.

Clone the BSK-RL repository.

$ git clone git@github.com:AVSLab/bsk_rl.git

Move to the base directory of the repository.
```
$ cd bsk_rl
```
Ensure that the virtual environment Basilisk is installed in is active. Install BSK-RL with the following command.
```
(.venv) $ python -m pip install -e "." && finish_install
```
The first half of this command will install pip dependencies and an editable copy of the BSK-RL package. finish_install downloads data dependencies and verifies the installation of Basilisk.

For a more granular installation, .[docs] (for documentation dependencies) or .[rllib] (for RLlib tools) can be specified. .[all] installs all dependencies.
Test the installation by running the unit tests and integration tests.
```
(.venv) $ pytest tests/unittest
(.venv) $ pytest tests/integration
```
The installation can also be verified by running Examples from the examples directory.

To build documentation locally, run:

(.venv) $ cd docs
(.venv) $ make html
(.venv) $ make view

Common Issues

Please report new installation issues on GitHub.

SPICE Errors

Errors such as

Toolkit version: N0065

SPICE(NOSUCHFILE) --

The attempt to load
"/home/user/basilisk/dist3/Basilisk/supportData/EphemerisData/de430.bsp" by
the routine FURNSH failed. It could not be located.

A traceback follows. The name of the highest level module is first.
furnsh_c --> FURNSH --> ZZLDKER

can be resolved by ensuring that Basilisk is installed using git-lfs.