Re: slippage
Hell, I wouldn't use them to launch a satellite, let alone travel in it myself. Communications satellites often take 4-5 years from initial planning to launch, so having one blow up on the pad is a pretty serious setback. Now if it was a rather standard 'off the shelf' design, you can probably get a replacement fairly quickly, but if it is customized at all it is a major setback and not worth whatever discount SpaceX is offering versus the more established choices (which aren't 100% perfect themselves but blow up at a far lower rate than SpaceX)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
