SpaceX Loses Early Gleam As Launch Plans Slip

Credit: Ben Cooper/AW&ST
For a brief moment in 2011, fledgling rocket maker SpaceX silenced critics with a deal to launch a commercial telecom satellite for one of the largest fleet operators in the world. Announced in March 2011, the agreement with Luxembourg-based SES to loft the SES-8 satellite to geostationary orbit...

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