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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.
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Seradata Space Intelligence
NASA gets serious about the Moon as it awards refueling and other demo contracts
NASA has formally awarded "Tipping Point" contracts worth a total of US$370 million to 14 firms to demonstrate new technologies for lunar and Mars exploration. No doubt stung by criticism that cryogenic storage and refueling technology would not be ready to make a...
NASA OSIRIS-Rex mission successfully lands on asteroid Bennu samples it and leaves
NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security - Regolith EXplorer) spaceprobe, having spent over a year using its cameras and spectrometers to image the small asteroid Bennu, on 20 October 2020 it successfully landed in a...
European small satellite manufacturer AAC Clyde Space to acquire US company SpaceQuest
Announced on 15 October 2020, is the intention of European smallsat manufacturing group, AAC Clyde Space, to purchase USA-based company SpaceQuest. This deal will benefit AAC Clyde as it attempts to expand its presence and market share in the lucrative American...
On a sadder note: we say goodbye to actress Rhonda Fleming, to actress/model Margaret Nolan, and to rocker Eddie Van Halen
One of this writer's favourite films is the movie rendition of Mark Twain's fun time travelling tale A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) starring Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming - a movie which, by the way, (spoiler alert) has a solar eclipse as a key...