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

May and June construction announcements: Angosat-2 the remake on way as are JPSS-3, JPSS-4 and PLATO

by David Todd | Jun 19, 2018

Having lost their first satellite Angosat-1 shortly after launch last year, in May the Angolan National Space Programme Management Office (GGPEN) formally announced the order of a YAMAL USP (VICTORIA) bus/platform replacement from RSC Energia. The finance for the...

Space World Cup: Australians get to see matches for free by order of the PM after Optus streaming service fails

by David Todd | Jun 19, 2018

The decision to allow a pay-TV service to have a monopoly of some World Cup matches via the Optus communications satellites has come back to bite the Australian government. Apart from being unpopular in the first place – most nations have all the matches on...

US President Donald Trump announces plan for US Space Force and hints at helping Elon Musk reach Mars

by David Todd | Jun 19, 2018

In between making peace with North Korea via a summit with its leader Kim Jong-un, and starting a trade war with the rest of the world via the imposition of import tariffs, US President Donald J. Trump ordered the US Department of Defence to form a new branch of the...

Glonass satellite is launched by Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat M

by David Todd | Jun 18, 2018

A Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat M rocket was launched from the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia at 2146 GMT on 16 June 2018. The Glonass M-59 satellite aboard, now dubbed Cosmos 2527 under the military designation system, was a Glonass navigation satellite which fits into...

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