It’s been two years since Boeing landed its first contract for what was billed as a revolutionary new satellite platform utilizing all-electric propulsion, but demand for all-electric satellites hasn’t lived up to the hype.

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Warren Ferster is the Editor-in-Chief of SpaceNews and is responsible for all the news and editorial coverage in the weekly newspaper, the spacenews.com Web site and variety of specialty publications such as show dailies. He manages a staff of seven reporters...