This contribution
revisits the first substantive space law article in Air and Space Law,
published in 1993, about a dispute between the US launch provider Martin
Marietta Corp. and the satellite operator INTELSAT, by placing it in today’s
context and discussing the recent loss of a satellite involving a Malaysian
satellite operator, Measat, its insurers, and the US satellite manufacturer
Boeing. Both cases involve the interpretation of contracts, insurance coverage
and dispute settlement. The article concludes that not much has changed since
the 1990s, and the recommendations made then are still valid today.