Airplane passengers crossing the Indian Ocean who peered out their windows on Oct. 19, 2024, might have seen what looked like a fast-moving star suddenly flash and fade. Above their heads, a $500 ...

It’s easy to imagine that once a spacecraft leaves Earth’s atmosphere and is in a stable orbit, the most dangerous phase of the mission is over. After all, that’s when we collectively close the live ...

PARIS — Startup satellite fleet operator Yahsat of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, has secured what its insurers say is the first space-insurance policy meeting financing conditions established in ...

— Insurance underwriters and brokers said the market remains healthy despite the fact that claims slightly exceeded premiums in 2007. They said they discriminate among launch vehicles and satellite ...

Edison, NJ-- (SBWIRE) -- 06/23/2021-- The Global Satellite Insurance Market Report assesses developments relevant to the insurance industry and identifies key risks and vulnerabilities for the ...

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's - a super-chunk of space satellite? A bus-sized defunct climate satellite is expected to make a fiery freefall from space down to Earth on Sept. 23, give or take a day, ...

Viasat has more than $1 billion of orbiting satellites in trouble, and space insurers are girding for market-rattling claims. The company’s roughly $1 billion ViaSat-3 Americas satellite, central to ...

Insurers won't pay to repair problems threatening XM Satellite Radio's constellation of satellites, XM executives disclosed on Thursday. XM and several other satellite radio providers use Boeing 702 ...

Cheap, uninsured satellites are creating more space junk — and it's starting to rain down on our heads. Airplane passengers crossing the Indian Ocean who peered out their windows on Oct. 19, 2024, ...