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I too have no experience with satellites, but I imagine a project may not be able to survive the financial burden of a loss.
by subway 9y ago
I too have no experience with satellites, but I imagine a project may not be able to survive the financial burden of a loss.
- regularfry 9y agoI used to know someone involved in launch insurance. It's a thing. Presumably not one available to super secret squirrel launches like this, though (although one might guess that Northrop could sort something out).
- pilom 9y agoLaunch insurance can absolutely be given to classified payloads. My understanding of the launch insurance business is you say "my payload is worth $(X)XXX million to me and we're launching on this type of rocket" and the insurers look at the history of that rocket and your history as a payload manufacturer and charge you a 10-40% premium that gets built into the cost to the government.