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...
by David Todd | Mar 26, 2014 | Satellites, Seradata News, Space Insurance
While improvements to pension freedoms, measures to encourage saving, and the potential for extra-judicial tax raids on bank accounts, stole the headlines about the recent UK Budget presented by UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon George Osborne MP, a...
by David Todd | Feb 12, 2014 | Space Insurance
While more famous for its space and aviation classes of insurance underwriting and for organising the World Space Risk Forum conference which is run biennially, the Dubai-based insurance agency, elseco, has appointed Russell Tong as its new Energy Underwriter. The...
by David Todd | Feb 5, 2014 | Seradata News, Space Insurance
Noted space underwriter, Tim Wright, has moved from Global Aerospace Underwriting Managers Ltd to become a founding partner of Altitude Risk Partners LLC, a new insurance agency and provider covering the aerospace market. Tim Wright will head up the space operation...
by David Todd | Feb 5, 2014 | Space Insurance
Having previously ventured into aviation insurance, specialist insurer Beazley has appointed Denis Bensoussan to start a satellite insurance underwriting capability within the firm. Denis Bensoussan comes to the firm from being Space Underwriter at the Lloyds...
