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

IAC 2018 Bremen: Cooperation and inclusiveness were the themes but Russian agency head was rather obviously missing

by David Todd | Oct 18, 2018

The 69th International Astronautical Congress was held in the city of Bremen near the coast of Northern Germany. The Congress is both a technical symposium where engineers, scientists and even lawyers present their papers, but also a place where the great space...

China conducts seventh launch this year to MEO in service of their Beidou satellite navigation system

by Matt Wilson | Oct 18, 2018

At 0423 GMT, 15 October 2018, another Long March 3B rocket this year lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, PRC, carrying two BEIDOU-3 M satellites to MEO (Middle Earth Orbit) to bolster the “third phase” of their indigenous Beidou satellite...

Swedish start-up Ovzon books launch on Falcon Heavy

by David Todd | Oct 18, 2018

Space News reports that Swedish start-up satellite operator Ovzon has made a launch booking of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy for an unnamed and yet-to-be ordered communications satellite set for geostationary orbit. The launch will take place in Q4 2020 at the earliest....

Arianespace gets Vega order from OHB Italia for launch of Luxemberg’s military satellite

by David Todd | Oct 18, 2018

OHB Italia, the Italian offshoot of the German OHB Systeme firm, has awarded a launch order for a Vega launch for the National Advanced Optical System (NAOS) under the term of a turnkey contract between OHB Italia and the Luxembourg’s Directorate of Defence. The...

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