by David Todd | Jan 18, 2018 | Seradata News, Space Insurance
Space insurers initially appeared to have had a good year in 2017, with premium revenues exceeding US$625 million (for both launch and in orbit insurance) and losses of much less than this at circa US$270 million. The worst confirmed loss in dollar terms was the Long...
by David Todd | Apr 13, 2017 | Seradata News, Space Insurance
The first official space insurance loss of 2017 occurred when CAN$3.5 million (US$2.6 million) was paid to ExactEarth for the total loss of one of its exactView satellites (believed to be EV-5R) on 3 February 2017. Insurers will be hoping that losses remain low,...
by David Todd | Feb 17, 2017 | On a Lighter Note, Seradata News, Space Insurance
The Lloyd’s of London insurance market has introduced a ban on its workers from drinking alcohol during the standard office hours of 9am to 5pm. And, according to reports some of its 800 workers are not happy at missing out on their traditional pint down the pub at...
by David Todd | Nov 10, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata Announcements, Seradata News, Space Insurance, SpaceX, Technology
Held every two years, albeit now with an additional “half time” conference in London in between the intervening years, the World Space Risk Forum (WSRF) conference in Dubai has become the premier event for space insurers and their clients to attend. This year,...
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 –...
