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The Space Weather Science Operations Center (SWxSOC) is a multi-mission Science Operations Center currently supporting the HERMES, PADRE, REACH, and IMPAX missions. SWxSOC's Science Data System (SDS) is built around reusable, mission-configurable software and infrastructure, allowing new missions to inherit a working, low-cost, open-source pipeline instead of designing, building, and operating one from scratch. The entire hybrid cloud and on-premises environment is defined in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), so identical development and production deployments can be stood up on demand and evolved in version control alongside the mission software.
The processing pipeline is organized as a chain of small, single-purpose serverless functions that communicate through a shared event queue. Each function is packaged as a container image, and a shared base image combined with a per-mission requirements layer lets the same infrastructure serve very different instruments with only configuration changes.
Around this core, SWxSOC exposes a set of mission-agnostic building blocks that any mission on the platform can opt into. Per-mission time-series databases provide persistent housekeeping and science data storage, giving each mission a queryable historical record of instrument state and derived science metrics without operating its own database. Shared visualization dashboards sit on top of those stores so operators, instrument scientists, and science teams monitor the pipeline and analyze data products from the same live view. A notification service delivers alerts and processing summaries into mission operations channels. A real-time data streaming and alerting capability produces derived alerts that downstream mission tooling can react to. Standardized archive delivery connects each mission's pipeline to both the Solar Data Analysis Center (SDAC) and the Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF), closing the loop from raw binary data to publicly available science products.Alongside the platform, SWxSOC helps maintain a set of open-source Python packages, including standalone packages for ISTP CDF and SOLARNET FITS metadata templating and validation.
Taken together, these software and infrastructure building blocks reduce duplicated effort across missions, make it practical to onboard new instruments quickly, and offer a template that other missions can adopt to stand up a modern Science Data System at low cost.