The Space Industry’s leading launch & satellite database

Our experienced analysts provide comprehensive, consistent, independent and authoritative information

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Seradata is the home of SpaceTrak

The Space Industry’s leading launch, satellite database and analysis system. Delivered via a powerful website, our experienced analysts provide comprehensive, consistent, independent and authoritative information covering every (orbital) launch and satellite since Sputnik in 1957. Originally created in 1997, SpaceTrak powers the marketing and risk decisions of key launch providers, manufacturers, insurance companies, governments and satellite operators worldwide.

SpaceTrak is the leading product of Seradata, set up as a result of a management buy-out in 2013 from Flightglobal Ascend (formerly Airclaims). Seradata has invested in and continues to improve both the content of and the IT behind SpaceTrak, enhancing the customer experience.

Here’s what SpaceTrak’s users say:

Luce Fabreguettes

VP Business Development

Arianespace

SpaceTrak is indisputably the most reliable source of information for risk evaluation to support decisions in the space sector.

Brian Kosinski

VP Mission Assurance

Space Systems/Loral (SSL)

At SSL we find the SpaceTrak database of great value for anomaly insurance claim information.

Jan Schmidt

Head of Space

Swiss Reinsurance

The SpaceTrak online database, as well as the Space Review analysis, have been very valuable to conduct our day-to-day underwriting business.

Saruta Utamachote

Senior Corporate Strategy Advisor

Intelsat

SpaceTrak’s comprehensive data is incredibly valuable in helping us make informed business decisions.

Seradata Space Intelligence

New Shepard makes suborbital flight test of escape system and carries mu-Space payload

by David Todd | Jul 19, 2018

On 19 June, at 1511 GMT, Blue Origin made a test flight of its New Shepard suborbital passenger vehicle from its Van Horn launch site in Texas. The test flight was in unmanned condition and was primarily for the purpose of testing an emergency escape system. The...

On a lighter note: World Cup amusements in Russia

by David Todd | Jul 17, 2018

As hosts, the Russians made a big deal about the space connection to the FIFA World Cup Adidas Telstar 18 football. Not only did it have a satellite name but it was even flown in orbit with the Cosmonauts on the International Space Station having a kick around with...

UK vertical launch spaceport and rockets confirmed for Sutherland in North Scotland while Newquay Cornwall leads the three horizontal finalists

by David Todd | Jul 16, 2018

Ahead of the Farnborough International Air Show, the UK Space Agency has finally decided on its choice of launch site for vertical launching using conventional rockets. It is on the A’Mhoin peninsular, Sutherland, on the North Coast of Scotland. The aspiration...

World Cup Update: France wins the trophy but England’s captain Harry Kane’s “Golden Boot” shows Three Lions on his Shirt were not disgraced

by David Todd | Jul 16, 2018

It is congratulations to France as its football team won the FIFA World Cup final against Croatia 4-2 in Moscow, which included a goal from a new star on the world footballing stage, 19-year-old wonderkid Mbeppe, and a goal by striker Antroine Griezmann, and by...

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