Burley R. J., J. L. Green, and R. J. Pages, IMAGE data operations, distribution and archiving, presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 15-19, 1996. IMAGE Data Operations, Distribution, and Archiving R. Burley, J. L. Green, R. Pages, NASA GSFC Greenbelt, MD 20771 The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) spacecraft, currently due for launch in early 2000, is pioneering a new mission and science data operations concept at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The seven instruments on IMAGE provide a new and unique image view of the Earth's magnetosphere. IMAGE is the first space physics mission in which there will be no proprietary data rights or periods. Because of this policy, the IMAGE mission has developed a Science and Missions Operations Center (SMOC) which will rapidly provide the Level-0 and browse data products from each of the 7 instruments. One of the major functions of the SMOC is to provide the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), the ultimate repository of the data, with IMAGE data immediately after it has been processed. Since there will be no proprietary rights to the IMAGE data, the NSSDC will receive the IMAGE Level-0 data, browse products, and associated products in such a way that they will be available for immediate public distribution. Both the SMOC and the NSSDC will utilize the World Wide Web (WWW) to provide IMAGE data access. The SMOC will use the WWW for providing the instrument team with the latest data and instrument status information and a library of IMAGE data processing software. The NSSDC will maintain an online archive of the IMAGE data products. Other unique IMAGE mission aspects include the development of a smart, nearly autonomous spacecraft, the integration of science and mission operations into a single homogenous team, and the generation of science browse products as an automated data pipeline.