Autonomous system
AS7847 NASA-HPCC-ESS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
government research legacy
NASA-HPCC-ESS belongs to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The handle names the High Performance Computing and Communications programme's Earth and Space Sciences project, the Goddard effort that ran NASA's massively-parallel supercomputing testbeds for Earth- and space-science grand-challenge codes.
What it's used for
- A single legacy /16,
169.154.0.0/16, registered to NASA in December 1994 under the network nameGSFC-ATM— Goddard's ATM-era research network. - Government research connectivity at Goddard rather than any kind of public service. There is no reverse DNS visible on the space and no subscriber or hosting addressing of any kind.
Notable
- This is US federal government address space held by a civilian science agency. Traffic from it is a Goddard system or a research host, not a consumer or a commercial server.
- The registration name preserves the technology of the day:
GSFC-ATMrefers to Asynchronous Transfer Mode, the high-speed networking Goddard used to feed its supercomputing testbeds in the mid-1990s.
Interesting
- The ESS project was where NASA pushed scalable computing to its limits, including the Cray T3E installed at Goddard, and the same Goddard group under Jim Fischer is where the Beowulf commodity-cluster project was born. AS7847's address space is a direct artefact of that era of NASA supercomputing.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 65.54K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7847- Registry name
- NASA-HPCC-ESS
- Registrant
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Abuse contact
- nobody@example.com
- Registered
- 1997-01-27
- Last changed
- 2010-08-06
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS7847
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 67% registered · 2 of 3 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS7847
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere