For Eutelsat, a leading geostationary and low Earth orbit communications satellite operator (with the acquisition of OneWeb), a lack of available launch slots over the next five years is of immediate concern, according to keynote speaker Vijay Thakur, the company’s...
Speaking at the Seradata Space Conference in London on 20 June, Stéphan Rives, the global head of reinsurer SCOR, set out the current status of the space insurance market. He noted falling premiums after a profitable year – with premiums at historically low levels –...
Voyager Space’s new space station will be launched as one item, Skylab-style, rather than being expensively completed in orbit as more recent space stations have been, chief revenue officer Clay Mowry told the Seradata Space Conference in London on 20 June. Mowry’s...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 1535 GMT on 23 June 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 5-12, a total of 56 v1.5 second generation Starlink satellites. The reusable B1069 first stage,m on its...
The Seradata Space Conference remains the leading forum for space insurance underwriters and brokers to meet their clients – the satellite operators, and their related industries such as launch providers. Attendance at this year’s event (the conference takes...
At 1424 GMT on 22 June 2023, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin opened the Poisk module hatch on the International Space Station (ISS) to begin spacewalk VKD-59. Their mission during this EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) was to retrieve several...
