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

Iridium secures second EMSS contract with US DoD…then signs MoU with OneWeb

by Matt Wilson | Sep 17, 2019

Virginia, USA, based Iridium Communications Inc, a provider of Mobile Satellite Services via its Low Earth Orbit (LEO)-based communications satellite constellation, has signed a seven-year Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) contract with the US Department of...

Diversity agenda can go too far says former female astronaut

by David Todd | Sep 16, 2019

NASA does not officially have any kind of "diversity-promoting" positive discrimination or quota system such as the BBC evidently has - and is often criticised for - when it books its TV presenters and guests, despite this discrimination being technically illegal....

Robot leaves the International Space Station (ISS) on board Soyuz MS-14

by David Todd | Sep 16, 2019

Having been undocked from the International Space Station (ISS), the unmanned, albeit with the Skybot F-850 robot aboard, Soyuz MS-14 descent module landed in rural Kazakhstan at 2132 GMT on 6 September 2019. The spacecraft had originally had trouble docking with the...

Belated news: Our Apollo 11 crossword is now corrected…and we also publish its solution…

by David Todd | Sep 13, 2019

To celebrate the 50th Apollo 11 anniversary earlier this year, we ran a crossword to test the brains of our readers. Unfortunately, we had some technical issues compounded by a few human errors. This meant that the clues were either wrongly numbered or missing. Thus,...

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