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

First Vega launch of the year orbits Italian PRISMA spacecraft

by Matt Wilson | Mar 22, 2019

Lifting-off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 0151 GMT, an Arianespace Vega, light-lift vehicle has carried the Italian-made PRISMA (PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa) hyper-spectral, Earth-Imaging, satellite to a sun-synchronous orbit. The Italian-led...

Opinion: How to get Brexit decided – the Todd Brexit referendum plan

by David Todd | Mar 20, 2019

To put an end to the disastrous uncertainty of the current Brexit impasse, a chagrin to the UK space industry and the nation's other industries who would mainly rather the UK was not leaving the EU at all, the UK needs another referendum to decide on whether the UK...

Inmarsat entertaining take-over offer from private consortium

by Matt Wilson | Mar 20, 2019

UK-based Inmarsat plc, a global provider of MSS (Mobile Satellite Service) products, announced on 19 March 2019, that they had received an non-binding cash offer for their company on 31 January, from a consortium of private investors. Their takeover bid is valued at...

Musk confirms that ceramic tiles are still needed for Starship and that Texas will be a launch site…as NASA turns away from SLS

by David Todd | Mar 19, 2019

Jules Verne in his 19th century sci-fi books From Earth to the Moon and is sequel Around the Moon, had the designers of "Columbiad" super cannon wondering from which US state the cannon-launched shell-like spacecraft would be launched from. The finalists were Florida...

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