by David Todd | Dec 10, 2015 | Satellites, Space Insurance
The media and press has pointed up the danger of space debris and solar storms to the world’s satellite fleet, but are these dangers really the main risk to satellites? To try to answer this, Seradata, the spaceflight information company (and publisher of this news...
by David Todd | Dec 9, 2015 | China, Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, ESA, History, India, Launches, Military space, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, SLS, Space Insurance, Space tourism, Spaceport, Technology, Virgin Galactic
The World Launcher Review has technical descriptions and commentaries covering every major orbital launch vehicle flying and in development, including their launch sites and their commercial launch providers. It also has a market analysis and a review of those factors...
by David Todd | Nov 23, 2015 | Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Space Insurance
The Israeli communications satellite owned by Amos-Spacecom, Amos-5, has suffered what appears to be a total failure in orbit on 21 November 2015. All telemetry from the spacecraft was cut off at 0445 GMT. The spacecraft, which was launched in 2011 and built by the...
by David Todd | Sep 29, 2015 | Seradata News, Space Insurance
On 8 September 2015, Lloyds of London specialist insurer Amlin, which operates in several specialist insurance classes including Aviation and Space, has succumbed to a bid by the Japanese insurance giant Mitsui Sumitomo to take over its business. The bid, which was...
by David Todd | Jun 12, 2015 | Satellites, Space Insurance, Technology
At the Seradata Space Conference in London on 9 June 2015, this writer (David Todd) gave a brief presentation noting that launch reliability had remained relatively stable, and from Seradata’s serious anomaly dataset, that in orbit reliability was slowly improving –...
by David Todd | Jun 12, 2015 | Launches, On a Lighter Note, Space Insurance, Space tourism
There were a few amusements to be had at the Seradata Space Conference in London in June. Tim Fuller of Seradata raised a few ghoulish laughs when showing a launch event query during his excellent demonstration of SpaceTrak3 which had a “fatalities” field...
