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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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Seradata Space Intelligence
Swansong of Delta IV Medium successfully launches second GPS III navsat
The final launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Medium rocket successfully carried the second Global Positioning System III navigation satellite, GPS IIIA-2 (aka Magellan) into orbit for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The launch took...
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Spacewalkers and Dextre robot help berth IDA-3 docking adapter on ISS
Having been delivered on the Dragon CRS-18's trunk, the new IDA-3 docking adapter was moved to the space station by the Dextre robot arm. IDA-3 was berthed at the PMA-3 docking poor with a soft berthed at 1100 GMT on 21 August. On the same day, two astronauts Nick...
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The Great Space Race: Trump’s US hare is likely to beat Chinese tortoise back to Moon but the latter is more likely to stay
Every August Seradata does its usual analysis of the “runners and riders” in “The Great Space Race” between the major space nations. Here we judge each space programme on basis of technological ability, financial and other resources, national will and, most...
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Soyuz MS-14 is launched by Soyuz 2.1a with no-one aboard but a robot in the commanders seat
At 0338 GMT on 22 August 2019, a Soyuz 2.1a rocket successully launched the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft into orbit from the Baikonur launch site, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. While such Soyuz MS spacecraft usually carry cosmonauts and astronauts, this flight had no humans...
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