The Orbital Risk Infrastructure Layer
Converting unstructured uncertainty into quantified risk.
The National Space Insurance Program (NSIP)
The Market Reality
Critical Infrastructure. Uninsurable Risk.
Satellite infrastructure is the backbone of the modern world—underpinning global communications, navigation, climate monitoring, and intelligence operations. Yet, as orbital congestion grows, the financial mechanisms protecting this infrastructure are failing.
The Structural Failure
Insurers today price for catastrophic "doomsday" scenarios rather than operational performance. This limits capital availability and forces operators to trap massive reserves for self-insurance.
Why? Because orbital risk breaks the traditional rules of insurance:
Correlation
Unlike terrestrial risks, space lacks diversification. Debris cascades and environmental events affect multiple operators simultaneously.
Scale
Mega-constellations introduce systemic loss potentials that simply exceed private market capacity.
Attribution
When a satellite fails, is it a technical glitch? Debris? A hostile cyber act? Without clear attribution, accurate underwriting is impossible.
The Result: High cost of capital. Contracted financing horizons. Implicit government backstops with no pricing mechanism.
A National Economic Priority
The emergence of orbital risk infrastructure is not a policy option—it is the structural outcome of operational scale exceeding traditional market capacity.
NSIP aligns environmental stewardship with market incentives, ensuring operational continuity for critical systems. By implementing this framework, we position the United States as the anchor for global orbital capital formation.
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