INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma

The ASI Science Data Center (ASDC) is a multi-mission, multi-disciplinary, science operation center, data processing and data archiving facilità of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The ASDC has been built on the experience acquired within ASI with the management of the BeppoSAX Science Data Center in the late 1990s. It is located at the ESA site of ESRIN in Frascati, near Rome, Italy. ASDC has major responsibilities in scientific operations of high energy astronomy satellites (e.g. Swift, AGILE and Fermi), and supports a number of other mission or experiments in which there is the Italian contribution.