Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ames-lm.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!menlo70!ames-lm!al From: al@ames-lm.UUCP (Al Globus) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: satellite insurance Message-ID: <158@ames-lm.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Feb-84 00:32:20 EST Article-I.D.: ames-lm.158 Posted: Tue Feb 21 00:32:20 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Feb-84 05:59:06 EST References: <16595@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 16 >>>>>>>>> From: lauren%RAND-UNIX@vortex.UUCP My guess is that both W.U. and Indonesia will simply take their insurance money and make no effort to recover or otherwise make use of their "low-orbit" satellites. It'll be interesting to see how much the insurance premiums have shot up for the next deployment. --Lauren-- >>>>>>>>> According to Aviation Week and Space Technology the rates will double. Five communication satellites have been lost in the last year or so, two by shuttle/PAM, two by Ariane, and one by Delta. I'm glad I don't work in the space department of Lloyd's of London.