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What connects dragon tales
with rocket trails?

In medieval times, the map of the world was very small, often sharing the same shape as the animal skin it was drawn on. The edges were clearly demarcated and unknown regions were marked off with a warning: “hic sunt dracones” – here be dragons.

Today our maps have no edges. Instead, their expansion is infinite. Where dragons once roamed, we now have space rockets “boldly going”, as Captain James Kirk of the Starship Enterprise famously said, “where no-one has gone before.” 

  • Boldly Going

    To date, Voyager 11, launched from Cape Canaveral in 1977, has gone further than any other man-made object, discovering new moons, locating an extra ring round Saturn and even measuring the cosmic rays and magnetic fields of interstellar space. 

    And where governments have gone before, businesses are following. As of 2023, the space economy was valued at $570 billion with an estimated 13,230 objects in space, including both operational and non-operational satellites, spent rocket stages, and other debris.

    Increased demand for positioning and navigation services, plus the growing use of space-enabled technologies across many industries, including telecoms, transport and environmental monitoring is driving industry growth and fuelling advancements in satellite technology.

  • New frontier, new risks

    Of course, boldly going where no-one has gone before isn’t without its difficulties.
    Businesses and their backers need to contend with everything from launch and in orbit failures, to collision risk from space debris.

    Geopolitical, regulatory and compliance risks abound. The nascent space tourism industry opens up yet more risk frontiers. 

    In our combined 80 years in business we have shouldered the risks and through our expertise supported those who push boundaries, reach for greater heights and seek new adventures. 

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1- Voyager 1 is owned and operated by NASA, specifically the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is a federally funded research and development centre managed by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)