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An upstart rocket company postponed its first-ever satellite launch on Saturday after a series of last-minute snags. A spokeswoman for Space Exploration Technologies Corp. told MSNBC.com that it will be a minimum of one or two weeks before the company, also known as SpaceX, can try again. Dianne Molina said the delay was due to the need to ship liquid oxygen and helium to the launch complex on an island in the Pacific Ocean's Kwajalein Atoll. SpaceX developed its partially reusable Falcon 1 rocket as a low-cost alternative in a space launch industry dominated by aerospace giants Boeing Co. and...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. A newly developed rocket designed to break into the orbital launch business with low-cost service is waiting on a Pacific atoll to make its maiden flight. The Falcon 1 had been scheduled for launch yesterday from a pad in the Marshall Islands but the launch was bumped back to 1 p-m today because of preparations for a missile defense test launch. The rocket's payload is a satellite for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force Academy. FalconSat-2 will measure space plasma phenomena, which can impair space-based communications. The Falcon 1 rocket is the first...

light International Online news 10:00GMT: The US Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) has bumped the maiden flight of SpaceX Falcon 1, the first privately developed, liquid fueled rocket to reach orbit, from its official launch date today at 21:00 GMT to tomorrow at the same time. Falcon 1 is also making history as the world's first all new orbital rocket in over a decade. Designed from the ground up by SpaceX, Falcon 1 is a two stage rocket powered by liquid oxygen and purified, rocket grade kerosene. At launch it is expected to accelerate to 17,000 mph (twenty-five...