From Ukraine to Taiwan, Satellite Firms Wrangle With Geopolitics in Space October 6, 2023 By Peter Apps If China attempts to cut Taiwan off from the world by severing more than a dozen undersea cables that connect...
Billion-Dollar Satellite Risks Upending Space Insurance August 28, 2023 By Todd Shields and Loren Grush Viasat Inc. has more than $1 billion of orbiting satellites in trouble, and space insurers are girding for market-rattling claims....
Britain’s Satellite Launch Fails, but Virgin Orbit Expected to Try Again January 11, 2023 By Paul Sandle NEWQUAY, England – Britain’s hopes of becoming a prime launch site for small satellites remain intact despite the failure of...
Investigators Probe Failure of Italy’s Vega C Rocket; Satellite Insurers Expect Profit Hit December 22, 2022 An investigation is being launched after the latest version of Italy’s Vega C rocket failed on its second mission, destroying...
Russia’s Threat to ‘Strike’ Western Satellites Tests Laws of War in Space October 28, 2022 By Joey Roulette A Russian official’s threat this week to “strike” Western satellites aiding Ukraine highlights an untested area of international law, raising...
Russia Missile Test Creates New Belt of Space Junk, Escalating Threat to Satellites November 19, 2021 By Todd Shields The Russian missile test that shattered a dead satellite this week highlights a growing threat of space debris just as...
Insurers Pull Back as Risks of Satellite and Space Debris Collisions Surge September 1, 2021 By Noor Zainab Hussain and Carolyn Cohn An ever-swelling amount of space debris is threatening satellites that hover around Earth, making insurers leery of offering coverage to...
AXA XL Partners with SpaceAble to Support Operators with Satellites in Low Earth Orbit April 22, 2021 AXA XL Insurance announced it has established a global partnership with SpaceAble, a start-up specializing in space situational awareness (SSA),...
Swiss Re Estimates Its Q4 Natural Catastrophe Claims to Hit US$1.0B January 15, 2019 Swiss Re estimates it will pay claims of approximately $1.0 billion for natural catastrophes booked in the fourth quarter of...
Space Junk: Emerging Global Risk Threatens Satellite Communications – Opinion September 21, 2018 By Mark Buchanan, Bloomberg View Last Saturday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2, which will monitor Earth’s...