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:

Harriet Brettle

Business Analyst

Astroscale

SpaceTrak's comprehensive database has been extremely valuable for analysing the satellite industry through a variety of projects.

Kathy Shockey

VP Business Development

SSL Maxar

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

SpaceX admits that four of its first 60 Starlink satellites have problems

by David Todd | Jun 14, 2019

While Space X originally announced that all 60 Starlink communications satellites launched by a Falcon 9 on 24 May were in contact with ground control, according to analysis of orbital raising manoeuvres four satellites appeared to have been behaving differently from...

Analysis: The BBC gets itself into all sorts of trouble

by David Todd | Jun 14, 2019

The world renowned British Broadcasting Corporation - more normally known as the BBC - has been licking its wounds after a series of disastrous decisions has caused it to lose a lot of its public support. The most recent of these was its support of comedian Jo Brand...

Falcon 9 successfully launches Radarsat Constellation Mission trio for Canada

by David Todd | Jun 13, 2019

At 1417 GMT on 12 June, the Canadian three-satellite Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) - was launched by a Falcon 9v1.2r Block 5 into a sun-synchronous low Earth orbit of circa 604 x 584 km at an inclination of 97.4 degrees relative to the equator. The launch was...

NASA turns ISS into Space Hotel USA (with Robert Bigelow’s help)…as President Trump starts to have doubts about lunar return

by David Todd | Jun 12, 2019

While the International Space Station (ISS) had its usual comings and goings - mainly the unberthing and undocking of Dragon CRS-17 cargo craft which returned to Earth on 3 June, and the departure and safe burn up of Progress MS-10 cargo craft on 4 June - its future...

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