Cost and Insurance Aspects

Numerous insurance companies provide capacity for the ground aspects of space risks (during Assembly, integration and test phases). A smaller number of companies provide capacity during the transport (to and from  launch site) and launch campaign phases.  For the phases that follow the intentional ignition of a launch vehicle,  the market is composed of roughly 12 leading insurers (i.e. insurers  able to study a risk and provide a quotation for it) worldwide, and  roughly 30 "followers" (insurers that will provide capacity behind a leader).

Some of the main leaders in Europe are: GENERALI (Italy), AGF ( France), MARHAM (Lloyds - UK), ...... 

Due to the fact that

1. on a given risk, you will never find a single insurer but a co- insurance, and
2. given the complexity of the insurance policies to set up,

Capacity per event is defined as the maximum amount of insurance that an insurer is theoretically able to provide on a given event (launch or  in orbit life of one satellite)

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