Archive | April, 2013

“Universal” claims in space-related insurance

22 Apr

The insurance industry is getting with the program of space exploration. With space tourism also banked on the horizon, a wave of actuarial analysis over space operations notifies insurance companies of an emerging market.

This market is neither confined to state-sponsored research, exploration, and satellite operations, nor is it as narrow as that. Private space programs are multiplying, as are future customers of space tourism packages. But while technology and confidence are still lumbering toward space exploration’s postponed promises, insurance discussions are on the fly. Risks, real or imagined, are chiming in with commercialization, and they are more explosive in this business than in any in terms of potential financial loss, casualties, and equipment destruction.

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The insurance industry segments overall risk at every link in the chain, and the resulting distribution channel is a complex network of satellite operators, investors, potential customers, and high-technology suppliers, among others. This foresight, however, also outruns the overall potential scope of the space industry before it is actualized. It’s bound to branch out into different sectors apart from tourism and research in the future, as other industries, such as mining and pharmaceuticals, are likely to hitch into the space wagon.

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Some of the biggest insurance companies have already structured claims around existing modus operandi and supply chains. Yet, despite the reassuring presence of insurance companies, the future of space commercialization has to hold down the biggest risk of all — whether the fruits of such discussions could attain new orbits of reality.

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