Re: Branson and Bigelow to team up for a space hotel?

It seems that you are agreeing with me in the end. Which causes me to
question your pointless argumentation at the outset. Excuse my
irritatibility! Because I think some of what you said early on set you
off in my mind as a jerk in my book, and which obviously, I don't mind
pointing out - my patience with jerks of late is wearing quite thin!
lol.

But you've missed an important point from a quick reading - there is
insurance related to recovering the vehicle and payload costs, lost
revenue from delay of payload placement and so forth. So, a $200,000
satellite is likely to cost less than $200,000 to insure. But there's
also insurance for third party liability - crashing into Tokyo due to a
failed or misguided stage from the Marshalls - and this is a
requirement of a commercial launcher. This is the main reason I see $3
million as being an irreducible amount. Now, if you have a compact,
transportable launcher to put up government satellites for battle field
recon or some such - with the government taking full liability without
insurance - yeah, you can say, hey, this will cost $100,000 or some
such. But, if you're a commercial operation and there is a possiblity
that your stage could fall down on some bananna field in the
Phillipines and cause $100 million in crop loss and death and
destruction generally, don't be surprised if even a $200,000 satellite
with a $100,000 launcher is charged $3 million to cover this
possibility - especially early on.

Like I said, the US government requires commercial operators to carry
something like $60 million worth of third party coverage - which
contributes a lot to the launch costs of any vehicle - no matter what
its size. Of course, this could be a reason Musik is locating in the
Marshalls - but that won't save him if his customers are in th eUS and
he gets the bulk of his money from the US markets.

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