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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.
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On a lighter note: GSOH (Good Sense of Humour) and something to stick in the right hole are essential for human Mars missions
Most wise humans know that while we should take our roles seriously as workers, parents, carers and the like, we should not take ourselves too seriously. Nothing saps the spirit like having a po-faced professional colleague whose humourless attitude tends to get...
read moreAnalysis: Corbyn’s failure to force second Brexit referendum triggers delamination of Labour Party
Aerospace engineers normally do their utmost to try to avoid unwanted "delamination" (the splitting of layers) in composite structures, but just such a delamination now apparently underway in the UK's Labour Party after its leader Jeremy Corbyn failed to support a...
read moreQuelle surprise – NASA admits that Commercial Crew launches will be delayed yet again
In what is becoming a habit, NASA, has been forced to admit that its plan to launch crew aboard commercial launches of commercial spacecraft has been delayed again. Specifially, the uncrewed test launches of both SpaceX's Crew Dragon, and the Boeing CST-100 Starliner...
read moreMars One project for TV show on Mars has gone bust…to no-one’s surprise (well nearly)
The Mars One plan to base a reality TV show on the surface of Mars in 2024 and its competition to send 24 participants there has, of course, ended in tears. To no-one's surprise, except perhaps its instigators Bas Lansdorp and Arno Wielders, the project came to a...
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