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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moulin" data-source="post: 1083957" data-attributes="member: 414562"><p>Does anyone know how the insurance works?   I'd heard that as a rough rule of thumb a satellite owner paid about 50% on top of the total price of the satellite in insurance premiums to cover the launch and deployment.    But I wonder what happens if there's only a partial failure,  would Eutelsat only get back a proportion of the sum insured?   Is that what's preventing them simply ordering a new craft?   Certainly it's been interesting seeing how an operator tries to get out of the hole that - certainly in my view - was largely of their own creation,   due to leaving things far too late in terms of making sure 5W was properly covered.    I can't see SES Astra getting into such a muddle.....</p></blockquote><p></p>