by David Todd | Jul 15, 2019 | Apollo, Blue Origin, Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Seradata News, Space Insurance, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic
As the 50th celebration of the Apollo 11 astronaut moon landing mission gets underway, some less well known aspects of the mission have been revealed. One was that during the late 1950s the UK briefly considered starting a project to mount an Apollo 11 style human...
by David Todd | Jul 11, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, Space Insurance
While launch vehicles usually have their first launch failure during their first ten flights, the Avio-built Arianespace-operated Vega launch vehicle waited until its 15th flight to have its first. After what seemed to be a successful launch from its Kourou launch...
by David Todd | Jun 23, 2019 | Blue Origin, Launches, Seradata Announcements, Space Insurance
There are just two days to register for the Seradata Space Conference, Space Risks, Business and Insurance which takes place in London on 25 June 2019. We have put together a fantastic array of speakers who will inform, educate and entertain you. To see the full...
by David Todd | May 23, 2019 | Blue Origin, commercial launch services, Military space, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata Announcements, Seradata News, Space Insurance, Technology
There is just a month to go to the Seradata Space Conference, Space Risks, Business and Insurance which takes place in London on 25 June 2019. We have put together a fantastic array of speakers who will inform, educate and entertain you. Our Headline Sessions include:...
by David Todd | Mar 15, 2019 | Finance, Space Insurance
While the US$5.6 billion proposed take over JLT (Jardin Lloyd Thompson) by the US-based broker Marsh & McClennan is set to be completed this spring, its aerospace division is going elsewhere. To assuage EU regulatory concern over competition specifically about the...
by David Todd | Jan 7, 2019 | Satellites, Seradata News, Space Insurance
The WorldView-4 commercial imaging satellite has experienced a failure in its control moment gyros (CMGs), which has effectively ended its mission as it prevented the spacecraft from stably pointing its imaging systems. The failures of the CMGs began earlier in the...
