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

The François Arago Centre is a project at the Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC) laboratory and is supported by the IPGP within the Space Campus of Université Paris Denis-Diderot.

The centre was founded in 2010 with the goal to support space-based experiments facing the challenge of data treatment of steadily increasing and complex data sets. The centre provides services, such as computing facilities, data analysis, archiving, and distribution support, access to the heavy-duty computing facilities at CC-IN2P3, and office space to both, ground and space-based projects with strong french involvement. In the spirit of François Arago, who combined many fields of natural science in his work, enabled science by focusing attention on new technologies and supporting scientific development through communication between many disciplines, we want to serve the scientific community. The aim is to bring together scientists from different fields, data and software engineers, the scientific community and the general public in order to best exploit the data provided by todays state-of-the-art experiments.

The field of astroparticle physics lies at the interface between the study of the infinitely large and infinitely small, between particle physics and astrophysics.

The AstroParticle and Cosmology laboratory (APC) was designed to bring together the different communities (experimentalists, theorists and observers) involved in this field. 

It was created in 2005 during the overhaul of the University of Paris 7 on the campus of Paris Rive Gauche with laboratories MPQ (Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques) and MSC (Matière et Systèmes Complexes). APC brings together 75 permanent researchers, and over sixty engineers, technicians and administrative staff. Including non permanent staff (PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, visitors), there are some 200 people in this new structure. Besides the University of Paris Diderot, the laboratory funding agencies are CNRS (represented by three of its Institutes: mainly IN2P3, but also INSU and INP), CEA (IRFU) and the Paris Observatory.