November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
...providing manufacturing, pre-launch, launch and in-orbit coverage At the time of that first space insurance policy, there were no space brokers, no space insurers and precious little space industry, so the policy was placed with the existing aviation...
February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
...existing regime sufficient, or should there be some ‘legal incentives’ for IOS to develop and for insurers to participate? Natural allies? Space insurance has existed as an industry since the launch of the first commercial satellites in the mid-1960s...
June 2021
The next ‘unthinkable’ – global disruption from a solar storm
...geomagnetic storm can be generated. Three main types of space weather events are typically recognised: radio blackouts, solar ... most extreme cases, geomagnetic storms can hamper space activities and satellite tracking, high frequency radio propagation...
April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
... trends from past data. Anecdotally, following a spate of failures of one type of equipment/subsystem, underwriters in the space insurance market started to hire experts on that type, only to find that a year or so later, a completely different...
March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
... being intentionally de-orbited. NASA has serviced the Hubble Space Telescope five times during the space telescope’s 25-year lifetime The salvage clauses in most space insurance policies do not predict a scenario in which a servicing mission...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... are more frequent and data has been accumulated, rate swings are reducing, but to some extent space insurance is still in its infancy. Investment fund There needs, therefore, to be some financial as well as legislative incentive for prospective...
