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The ISDC Data Centre for Astrophysics is attached to the Astrononomical Observatory of the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

The ISDC started its activities as the INTEGRAL Science Data Centre and is now actively contributing to several other space missions and ground-based projects with a prime scientific focus on high-energy astrophysics.

It processes the data for th efollowing satellites:

INTEGRAL, PLANCK, GAIA, ASTRO-H, POLARCHEOPS, HEAVENS, FACT, CTA, LOFT, SAFARI, JEM-EUSO, ATHENA, CAP

INTEGRAL  is the first space observatory that can simultaneously observe objects in gamma rays, X-rays and visible light.

The European Space Agency's INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) is an operational Earth satellite, launched in 2002 for detecting some of the most energetic radiation that comes from space. It is the most sensitive gamma ray observatory ever launched.

INTEGRAL is an ESA mission in cooperation with the Russian Space Agency and NASA. It has had some notable successes, for example in detecting a mysterious 'iron quasar'. It has also had great success in investigating gamma-ray bursters and evidence for black holes.