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Support to insurers and other parties

QinetiQ provides impartial technical advice to insurers and other legal and financial bodies in assisting the interpretation of complex technical issues.

Specific services include assessment of a satellite health and investigation or review of anomalies to support:

  • Assessment of remaining service lifetime.
  • Loss adjustment
  • Due diligence
  • Expert witness activities
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Examples of analyses include:

  • Remaining propellant life and uncertainties
  • Power generation and impacts on transponder use
  • Systematic failures
  • Command and control issues
  • Electrostatic discharge and mitigation
  • General technical assessments in areas such as thermal or AOCS (Attitude and Orbit Control System)


Often, real spacecraft problems involve more than one subsystem and also often suffer from a lack of immediate information. A strength of QinetiQ's approach is recognising both the complexity and limits of information and retaining a balanced view of the risks from unknowns.

In all cases the potential for long term mitigation of anomalies can be assessed to determine the plausible bounds of service life estimates.

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