Welcome to the NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive, NASA's archive for space science mission data.
JAXA's XRISM mission was successfully launched at 23:42 UT 06 September.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released its latest deep field image, featuring never-before-seen details in a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744). More...
Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a joint NASA/ASI mission, has uncovered important new information regarding blazars, supermassive black holes feeding off of surrounding material. More...
The Parker Solar Probe made its 15th perihelion pass of the Sun, at a distance of 0.06 AU, on 17 March 2023.
ESA's Solar Orbiter reached its 6th perihelion, at 0.29 AU, on 10 April 2023.
The ASO-S mission to study solar flares and CMEs launched on 08 October 2022.
NASA announced the cancellation of the VIPER rover, part of the Griffin Mission 1 mission to the Moon, on 17 July. NASA stated cost increases, delays to the launch date, and the risks of future cost growth made it necessary to discontinue development of the rover. Griffin Mission 1 is scheduled to launch no earlier than fall 2025. For more, see the NASA Press Release.
The CNSA (China) Chang'e 6 return vehicle landed in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on 25 June at 06:07 UT (2:07 a.m. EDT, 2:07 p.m. Beijing time). The capsule brought back over 1.9 kg of the first samples ever collected from the Moon's far side.
On 29 May, the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) announced that contact had been lost with the Venus orbiter, Akatsuki. The spacecraft has been operating in orbit around Venus since 2015. Ground controllers are trying to re-establish contact.