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.

Kathy Shockey

VP Business Development

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

Third stage launch failure on Simorgh rocket denies Iran’s PAYAM satellite an orbit

by Matt Wilson | Jan 15, 2019

In the early hours of 15 January 2019, local time, the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) attempted to launch the PAYAM satellite into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) utilising their Simorgh, light launch vehicle. This launch is reported to have ended in failure due to an anomaly with...

FLEX gets its construction order finally awarded to Thales Alenia Space

by David Todd | Jan 14, 2019

The construction of the FLEX - Fluorescence Explorer spacecraft to study "vegetation fluorescence" to determine global photosynthetic activity has been officially ordered. Having been originally selected in Novemer 2015 as the 8th ESA Earth Explorer mission, the...

Russia loses control of its Spektr-R (Radioastron) in orbit radio telescope

by David Todd | Jan 14, 2019

While it might be over two years past its "use-by" date - i.e. its five year minimum design life - Russia has keenly felt the loss of its in-orbit radio astronomy telescope Spektr-R (Radioastron). The spacecraft which was built by NPO Lavotchkin to detect gamma and...

Dragon CRS-16 departs ISS and splashes down carrying return cargo

by David Todd | Jan 14, 2019

It was return time for the Dragon CRS-16 spacecraft which originally arrived and docked at the International Space Station on 16 December 2018. Having been unberthed from Harmony Nadir Port, the ISS robot arm released the Dragon CRS-16 spacecraft at 2333 GMT on 13...

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