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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 sadder note: Rocket engine expert George Sutton dies at 100, while Brit TV entertainers Des O’Connor and John Sessions pass away
We note here a belated tribute to George P. Sutton, rocket scientist and textbook author, who passed away in October at the age of 100. No rocket scientist or engineer (or even space analyst or journalist) would be without at least one copy of his famous Rocket...
Falcon 9 launches “dog house” looking sea-level monitoring satellite Sentinel 6A Michael Freilich
The Sentinel 6A (Michael Freilich) satellite (aka Jason CS-1) was launched successfully into a Sun-synchronous orbit with its lift-off taking place at 1717 GMT on 21 November. The launch was performed by a Space X Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at...
Electron launches 29 satellites and returns parachuting first stage to a splashdown as step to helicopter recovery plan
Rocket Lab's most recent mission, dubbed "Return-to-Sender", saw an Electron launch vehicle lift-off from Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, at 0220 GMT on 20 November. The mission was carrying 29 smallsats/CubeSats, plus an advertising payload. The...
Spacewalk of the Sergeys: Two Russian cosmonauts make repairs and equipment changes to ISS
Russian Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchcov - the two Sergeys - made an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) - more commonly known as a spacewalk, from the airlock on the Poisk module on the International Space Station on 18 November 2020. This was the first...