Back to the catalog
Software — free catalog
General Coordinates Network
A NASA software catalog entry available for reuse or request.
About this technology
Overview
The General Coordinates Network (GCN) is a public collaboration platform run by NASA for the astronomy research community to share alerts and rapid communications about high-energy, multimessenger, and transient phenomena. GCN distributes alerts between space- and ground-based observatories, physics experiments, and thousands of astronomers around the world.