The WSO-UV Science Archive (WSA) is not a simple safe place where to store the data, but it will provide and easy and efficient access to the contents, as well as basic processing capabilities aiming to provide the user with the required services to allow him/her maximizing the amount of retrieved high quality data without requiring major expertise in data processing and managing techniques. For this purpose, WSO-UV science Archive will be VO compliant.

WSA is responsible for providing secure and persistent storage for data belonging to the WSO/UV mission, and allowing authorized users to access to this data in a fast and reliable way.

WSA is the mission legacy that guarantees that the mission products will be usable by future users, for research, education and engineering analyses, well beyond the S/C life expired and the spacecraft operations ended. It will allow the astronomers from any country have the opportunity of accessing the high-quality data of the mission at any time (once the data is made public).