NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog
- id: SRC-001
- publisher: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- location: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/
- confidence: believed-correct
The NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive's Master Catalog is the closest thing spaceflight has to a universal reference: an entry for essentially every spacecraft ever launched — American, Soviet, European, Japanese, and beyond — with launch data, mission descriptions, and instrument listings. It is the default citation for every probe in this wiki, from Luna 3 to Parker Solar Probe; when this demo and the Master Catalog disagree, believe the Master Catalog.