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Allowing the solar system community fast and easy access to astronomical data archives is a long standing issue. Moreover, the everyday increasing amount of archival data coming from a variety of facilities, both from ground-based telescopes and space missions, leads to the need for single points of entry for exploration purposes. Within this context, the ESAC Science Data Centre (ESDC), located at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Madrid, has developed ESASky (http://sky.esa.int), a science driven discovery portal to explore the multi-wavelength sky, providing fast and intuitive access to high-level science-ready data products from all ESA (and other) space-based astronomy missions (Gaia, Hubble, Herschel, XMM-Newton, Chandra (NASA), SUZAKU (JAXA), Planck, ISO, INTEGRAL).

We present here the first integration of the search mechanism for solar system objects (SSOs) through ESASky. Based on IMCCE Eproc software for ephemeris precomputation, it allows fast discovery of observations from ESA missions that potentially contain SSOs within their field of view. In this first integration, the user is able to input a target name and retrieve the results on-the-fly for all the observations from ESA missions that match the input provided, i.e., all observations that contain within their field of view and exposure time frame the ephemerides of such objects. Finally, we will also discuss future plans for the evolution of the application for serving the solar system community through strong collaboration with other main actors in the field.