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Nature 441, 811 (15 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/441811b; Published online 14 June 2006

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Colin Macilwain

If you're an insurance company that finds house fires and fender-benders a little bit mundane, there's always the space business.With premiums of, say, US$40 million a shot and payouts that can be ten times that, insuring commercial satellite launches is not for the faint-hearted.