by David Todd | Nov 19, 2014 | Satellites, Space Insurance
As reported by Space News, the Argentinian space operator, Arsat, has managed to have its Arsat-1 and Arsat-2 spacecraft insured, at least in part, by policies covering launch plus 15 years in orbit at the relatively low premium rates of being under 10%. These VERY...
by David Todd | Oct 29, 2014 | International Space Station, Launches, Space Insurance
A formal insurance claim for US$214 million has been made for the loss of a satellite telecommunications beam on the ABS-2 communications payload. The failure was first discovered in July when a Ku-band beam fault on spacecraft led to outage affecting its customers. ...
by David Todd | May 28, 2014 | Satellites, Space Insurance
While most of the conference attendees at the World Space Risk Forum in Dubai prefer to use science and statistical analysis over superstition when working out whether to take a financial risk or not, there is always a place for good luck. As such, this writer did...
by David Todd | May 21, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, Satellites, Seradata News, Space Insurance
Introduction Held in Dubai every two years and organised by the underwriting agency Elseco, the World Space Risk Forum has now become the pre-eminent conference on space insurance. Space Insurers, brokers, satellite operators, manufacturers and launch providers along...
by David Todd | May 15, 2014 | commercial launch services, Russia, Satellites, Space Insurance
The Proton M launch vehicle has had yet another launch failure. The Russian government launch which occurred from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan at 2142 GMT on 15 May 2014 failed to launch the Express 4R communications satellite after a suspected...
by David Todd | Apr 15, 2014 | Satellites, Space Insurance
The commercial communications satellite Amazonas 4A (aka Hispasat 4A)has had a fault with its power system. The spacecraft which was launched on 22 March 2014 on behalf of the satellite operator Hispasat, uses a Star 2.4 bus design built by Orbital Sciences...
