WASHINGTON — Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) said March 15 that it has signed an agreement with Space Systems/Loral to launch one of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based satellite builder’s 1300 model spacecraft into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket for an unspecified customer as early as 2012.

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Brian Berger is editor in chief of SpaceNews.com and the SpaceNews magazine. He joined SpaceNews.com in 1998, spending his first decade with the publication covering NASA. He was named senior staff writer in 2004, a position he held until being named...