It may be better to use the statistical value of a human life defined by safety/enivronmental organizations, which for the US is currently about $10 million per

It may be better to use the statistical value of a human life defined by safety/enivronmental organizations, which for the US is currently about $10 million per citizen. Going by that the satellite was worth about 70 lives, which is a bit under the amount of people killed by venomous animals each year in the US. Edit: More random morbid facts - Annual automobile deaths amount to only 6% of Wyoming's population, but do economic damage equal 10x Wyoming's GDP.