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

Majority stake in satellite operator Hispasat to be bought by Spanish infrastructure company REC

by Matt Wilson | Feb 13, 2019

In a statement released on 12 February 2019, Red Eléctrica Corporación, S.A. (REC) announced that they had reached a deal with current Hispasat majority shareholder Abertis Infraestructuras, S.A. (Abertis) to purchase their 89.68 per cent stake for EUR€949m...

Cygnus NG-10 (John Young) space freighter is released from ISS to start secondary sat delivery mission

by David Todd | Feb 12, 2019

The Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-10 (John Young) unmanned cargo spacecraft, whose operation has been commission by NASA, having earlier been "unberthed" from the Unity module using the International Space Station's robot arm, it was released at 1616 GMT on 8 February...

Final Viasat 3 satellite is ordered from Boeing

by David Todd | Feb 8, 2019

While Viasat 3-1 (Viasat-3 Americas) and Viasat 3-2 Viasat-3 EMEA High Throughput Satellites (HTS) have their construction well underway and are planned for launches in 2021, there was a missing third member of the GEO triumvirate: Viasat 3-3 (Viasat-3 Asia-Pacific). ...

Amazon billionaire and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has divorce woes

by David Todd | Feb 8, 2019

It is not just SpaceX founder Elon Musk who has trouble with gossip about his love life. Jeff Bezos, the Amazon multi-billionaire and founder of SpaceX's start-up launch providing competitor, Blue Origin, has found himself mired in gossip column allegations and...

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