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# 21791 byRussell Wallace on Aug. 25, 2007, 8:08 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22
> Launchers are available.
>
> But they are not reliable in the sense that high
> insurance rates make the costs - well - astronomical.
etc are more than 90% reliable. If that's the case, then surely the
cost premium for reliability (whether covered by insurance or not)
should be on the order of 10% of the cost of the payload?