"As #space junk increases, more operators are choosing to launch without any #insurance at all. To compensate, companies are cutting back on the cost of satellites and launching more of them at faster rates, thus creating a feedback loop as the cheaper satellites break up more easily and add to the problem. Behind the predicament are two vectors moving in opposite directions: The cost of launching satellites is falling, while the cost of insuring them continues to soar.”

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Satellites keep breaking up in space. Insurance won't cover them.

Cheap, uninsured satellites are creating more space junk — and it's starting to rain down on our heads.

^{Tom Brown (Space)}