PARIS — Insurers are likely to face a claim of slightly more than $100 million to pay for the reduced service life of Indonesia’s Palapa-D telecommunications satellite, bringing to around $500 million the amount of satellite-related insurance claims made so far in 2009, insurance broker Willis Inspace said Sept. 4.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris bureau chief for SpaceNews.