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NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive
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<p>The NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive (NSSDCA) serves as the permanent archive for <a href="/facts/NASA/TIMCV0yV">NASA</a> space science mission data. "<a href="/facts/Space_science/Q7dCLVdN">Space science</a>" includes <a href="/facts/Astronomy/0ArJVM1p">astronomy</a> and <a href="/facts/Astrophysics/krFPRWLA">astrophysics</a>, solar and space <a href="/facts/Plasma_(physics)/1d3btMVU">plasma</a> physics, and <a href="/facts/Planetary_science/ocX6rp0d">planetary</a> and <a href="/facts/Lunar_science/PKERJvlP">lunar science</a>. As the permanent archive, NSSDCA teams with NASA's discipline-specific space science "active archives" which provide access to data to researchers and, in some cases, to the general public. NSSDCA also serves as NASA's permanent archive for space physics mission data. It provides access to several geophysical models and to data from some non-NASA mission data. NSSDCA was called the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) prior to March 2015. </p><p>NSSDCA supports active <a href="/facts/Space_physics/TfenH2xr">space physics</a> and <a href="/facts/Astrophysics/krFPRWLA">astrophysics</a> researchers. Web-based services allow the NSSDCA to support the general public. This support is in the form of information about spacecraft and access to digital versions of selected imagery. NSSDCA also provides access to portions of their database contains information about data archived at NSSDCA (and, in some cases, other facilities), the spacecraft which generate space science data and experiments which generate space science data. NSSDCA services also included are data management standards and technologies. </p><p>NSSDCA is part of the Solar System Exploration Data Services Office (SSEDSO) in the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA's <a href="/facts/Goddard_Space_Flight_Center/WfoEKknM">Goddard Space Flight Center</a>. NSSDCA is sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. NSSDCA acts in concert with various NASA discipline data systems in providing certain data and services. </p>