Fresh off an announcement of a research and development center in Texas for future spaceplane projects, California-based XCOR Aerospace won $182,000 worth of economic incentives for a manufacturing and operations center at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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XCOR Picks Texas for New Research and Development Site
NEW YORK — XCOR Aerospace, a private company designing a reusable suborbital spaceplane, will open a new test facility in Texas, company officials announced July 9.
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Space Expedition Corp. Named XCOR Sales Agent
XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, Calif., said June 7 it had picked New York-based Space Expedition Corp. to find and train passengers for $95,000-a-seat flights on XCOR’s Lynx suborbital rocket plane.
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XCOR Flight Goes to Backup After NASA Winner Declines
A San Francisco Bay Area woman has won a free flight on XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx suborbital spaceplane after the original winner had to decline the $95,000 prize
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Jeff Greason, XCOR Aerospace
XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, Calif., recently cleared a significant hurdle in its efforts to develop a two-person suborbital spaceplane called Lynx. It wasn’t a technical milestone, but a financial one. Closing a round of $5 million in equity funding puts the company, led by co-founder Jeff Greason, in position to finish building its first operational Lynx and begin flight tests this year.
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Khaki Mckee, Program Manager, XCOR Aerospace Inc.
Approximately one year from now, XCOR Aerospace plans to begin conducting test flights of the Lynx Suborbital Spacecraft from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, where the company is based. The Lynx, powered by four liquid oxygen and kerosene-fueled engines, is designed to take off and land horizontally as it carries tourists and research payloads to the edge of space.
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XCOR, PSI Ink Agreement To Fly Suborbital Observatory
The Tucson, Ariz.-based Planetary Science Institute (PSI) said July 11 that it has signed a framework agreement with Mojave, Calif.-based XCOR Aerospace to fly a human-operated telescope aboard XCOR’s Lynx suborbital spacecraft.
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ULA and XCOR Join Forces on Upper-Stage Engine Project
WASHINGTON — Commercial spaceflight startup XCOR Aerospace and United Launch Alliance (ULA) plan to develop a low-cost liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen engine that could one day replace the RL 10 that currently powers the upper stage of ULA’s Atlas 5 and Delta 4 rockets, the companies announced March 22.
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SwRI Books 6 Flights on XCOR’s Lynx Spaceplane
XCOR Aerospace said Feb. 24 that the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has purchased six suborbital flights for SwRI researchers and their experiments. The flights aboard XCOR’s reusable Lynx suborbital spaceplane are meant to serve as pathfinder missions for other SwRI clients, XCOR said in a press release.
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Scale Model of XCOR’s Lynx Tested in NASA Wind Tunnel
Mojave, Calif.-based XCOR Aerospace said Sept. 20 that it recently completed supersonic wind tunnel testing of a scale model of its planned Lynx suborbital spacecraft at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
