India's New Space Re-entry Guidelines Highlight Insurance Capacity Gaps
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India's new space object re-entry guidelines, issued by IN-SPACe, have brought the country's limited commercial space insurance capacity into focus, leading to calls for specialized products and pooled capital.
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Why It Matters
India's new guidelines for planned re-entry missions of space objects have brought the country's limited capacity to insure commercial space risks into focus.
India’s new guidelines for the planned re-entry of space objects have suddenly brought the country’s limited capacity to insure commercial space risks into sharper focus, prompting calls for specialised products, pooled capacity and capital-market instruments.The guidelines, issued by the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) on July 23, cover planned re-entry missions involving objects such as reusable launch
Open Questions
- What specific specialised products will be developed?
- How will pooled capacity and capital-market instruments be implemented?
