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...
by David Todd | May 26, 2015 | Seradata News, Space Insurance
While space insurers lick their wounds after claims totalling more that US$500 million were made in late April and May (the Mexsat-1 Proton launch failure, the Egyptsat 2 in-orbit loss, and the Soyuz launch damage-induced loss of Progress M-027M), insurers also had...
by David Todd | Jan 2, 2015 | China, exploration, Russia, SLS, Soyuz, Space Insurance, SpaceX, Technology, Virgin Galactic
2014 was an interesting space year in many ways. It had elements of great achievement, some notable failures, and confirmed some industry trends that are looking unstoppable. Record breaking year for number of launched payloads Driven mainly by commercial factors and...
