The satellite industry would seem to have nearly a billion reasons to embrace satellite servicing. But the insurers who are on the hook for massive claims are taking a far more cautious approach.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...