Data Archive (DA) was created in IKI in order to:

• move data produced by previous mission from old 9-track magnetic tapes to modern media in order to save the data for future use;
• data acquisition and distribution Interball
• provide easier access to the data using IKI Local Area Network and make it reachable for external use;
• create the catalog of available files so that it would be possible to know what data are available and to search for necessary data.

DA hardware

• SUN SPARCstation 20/502 with 140GB of disk storage;
• SUN SPARCstation 4;
• SUN ELC workstation with 4GB of external disk storage;
• 9-track 1/2" tape drive;
• CD-Recorder;
• 8mm tape Exabyte jukebox for nearline archive storage (10 tapes for total of 50 Gbytes);
• Exabyte drive;
• two 4mm DAT drives.

Currently DA contains scientific telemetry data sets of following missions:

• Prognoz-7
• Prognoz-8
• Prognoz-9 (Relict)
• Prognoz-10
• Arcad
• Active
• Apex
• Gamma

The same facility is also used for other projects including Interball Data Archive in order to provide archival storage and access for their data.