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Re:Ten Thousand Years by PeterWhittaker on Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:15AM (#8092785)
The risks associated with a launch accident are far too high.

I googled a little to find a reliable set of launch success statistics but found nothing I was willing to include herein (it's Sunday morning, I got up late and am lazy right now), but overall success rates are in the high 80% to mid 90%. Failing to launch a satellite is one thing, having radioactive material spread atmospherically by a launch failure is quite another.

Then there's the cost. Yeah, that would be high. Especially with adding containers to protect against the risk described above.

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