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Thank you and God speed to our departing leader Tim Fuller and welcome to Melissa Quinn
In a leadership change, Managing Director Tim Fuller has left Seradata to go into semi-retirement (he will continue as a consultant with us). Tim founded Seradata after buying the space department and, importantly, its SpaceTrak spaceflight database, from the then...
The US$10 billion merger that never was: SES and Intelsat abort talks as SES CEO exits
The longstanding rumours about a possible merger between satellite operators Intelsat and SES, to create an entity valued at over US$10 billion, have finally been put to rest after Intelsat reportedly walked away from the discussions. Luxembourg-based SES confirmed...
Meteor M2-3 weather satellite is launched by Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat along with 42 other spacecraft
A Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat was launched from Vostochny launch site in Far Eastern Russia on 26 June 2023. Aboard was the VNIIEM-built 3.25 metric ton Meteor M2-3, a phased-arraw radar-equipped weather satellite heading for a 800 km sun-synchronous low Earth orbit, as the...
Elon Musk makes changes to Super Heavy/Starship and to pad ahead of next launch
SpaceX is making a number of modifications to its SuperHeavy/Starship combination and to the launch pad ahead of its next flight, following its pre-staging maiden launch failure due to attitude control and engine loss issues. Elon Musk, founder, CEO and Chief...
UAE decides to go to the asteroid belt with its own probe
Following the success of its Mars probe “Hope”, the UAE Space Agency has announced a plan to launch a probe to the asteroid belt by 2028. Known as the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA), from 2030 onwards it will study six asteroids on its way to a final one,...
Seradata Space Conference 2023: A squeeze on launch availability has operators and insurers praying for SpaceX reliability
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...
Seradata Space Conference 2023: The future of space insurance and what matters: reliability, collision risk and sustainability
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 –...
New Frontiers: space stations, the Lunar Pathfinder and orbit refuelling
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...
And another one up: SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 carrying 56 sats for Starlink Group 5-12 of Gen2 constellation
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...
Seradata Space Conference 2023: underwriters, operators and brokers gather for space talks, quizzes, and goodbyes
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 place...
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