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The NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive, or NSSDCA, is NASA's permanent archive for space science mission data, covering astronomy and astrophysics, solar and space plasma physics, and planetary and lunar science.
The NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive was first established, as the National Space Science Data Center, at Goddard Space Flight Center in 1966.
Before March 2015, the NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive was known as the National Space Science Data Center.
The NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive sits within the Solar System Exploration Data Services Office, part of the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. It is sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
No. The NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive has been unavailable or in maintenance mode since at least August 2025.
The Master Catalog supports Spacecraft Query, Experiment Query, Data Collection Query, Personnel Query, Publication Query, Lunar and Planetary Map Query, New and Updated Data Query, and Lunar and Planetary Events Query.