With the development of the remote sensing technology

many new types of remote sensing sensor are being developed immediately and used for earth observation.Large numbers of earth images

which are very important to research earth

are obtained.As remote sensing satellite data has a tendency to become high temporal

spatial and spectral resolution

its volume is increasing sharply.It is a great problem on how to efficiently restore

manage and search mass of remote sensing satellite data.And satellite data catalogue and archive system

a mass storage and searching web-based system

is just the tool to solve the problem.In order to develop high efficient

high reliable and maintainable archive and catalogue system

the characteristics of satellite data’s metadata are analyzed in the paper firstly

which determine the structure of storage organization.Then some critical technology on developing new type of archive and catalogue system are provided

including mass storage

spatial data storage

the implementation of high reliable system

archive and catalogue database’s optimization.At last

archive and catalogue system’s hardware structure is shown and its main functions are introduced briefly and an example of searching RESOURCESAT-1 satellite data is given.