Xcor Aerospace

Source: www.nytimes.com --- 121 days ago
Xcor Aerospace’s co-founder said the first version would be flying by 2010 and reach an altitude of 38 miles. ...

Source: www.tvturismo.com --- 123 days ago
Todavía no se han comercializado los vuelos suborbitales de Virgin Galactic (que lo harán a mediados del año que viene) y ya tiene competencia con los vuelos suborbitales de bajo coste que lanzará la compañía Xcor Aerospace. Los vuelos de bajo coste llegarán al turismo espacial en 2010 cuando lanzarán una nave supersónica que pondrá en [...] ...

Source: csmonitor.com --- 41 days ago
Wanna see outer space? The round trip will only take 30 minutes. Xcor Aerospace is counting down to 2010 for the launch of its Lynx rocket ship. The two-seater tourist plane will blast toward the sky at 1,500 miles per hour. The pilot cuts the engines three minutes in and lets momentum carry the Lynx to [...] ...

Source: www.freerepublic.com --- 120 days ago
When Xcor Aerospace last week unveiled the design of its suborbital spacecraft, intended to offer a glimpse of black sky and the Earth below to space tourists, one of those excited about the opportunity to experience what few have before was Esther Dyson. Dyson, of EDventure Holdings, ... is one of the investors who will help make it possible. Dyson is an angel investor, an individual who provides seed money for a young company, typically bridging the gap between self-funding and the later, larger investment by venture capitalists. "She has a knack for finding what's new and different in technology,"... ...

Source: instapundit.com --- 127 days ago
JEFF FOUST on the new (commercial) space race. "As the schedule for SpaceShipTwo slips, it provides an opportunity for other companies to gain a better footing in the market, and possibly even try to enter service before Virgin. Last week Xcor Aerospace made its latest move into the suborbital spaceflight market, announcing a vehicle, dubbed Lynx, that could enter service within two years. The efforts of Xcor and others are resulting in a wide diversity of vehicles, leaving it up to the market to determine which one—or ones—work best." ...

Source: www.gizmag.com --- 124 days ago
March 28, 2008 Back in 2001 Californian millionaire Denis Tito made headlines as the worlds' first space tourist - shelling out around US$20 million for the privilege. Seven years on, the competition to offer such an out-of-this-world experience to a broader range of paying customers (and capitalize on what is expected to become a market worth hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decade) is heating up. Earlier this year fledgling spaceline Virgin Galactic revealed designs for what will become its flagship - SpaceShipTwo , now Californian based Xcor Aerospace has unveiled a two-seater suborbital spaceship the size of a small private plane that the company expects to have airborne in 2010... Tags: Aeroplanes , Aviation , Space Tourism , Space Travel Related Articles: Australia considered as location for Suborbital Spaceport Space Adventures announces Spaceport for Singapore Space Adventures announces Spaceport development project in UAE Space Adventures to build a Sub-Orbital Spaceport Private Space Flight takes a forward step NASA's X-43A Scramjet Breaks Speed Record - again! ...

Source: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com --- 126 days ago
By Patrick Jeff Foust reports: As the schedule for SpaceShipTwo slips, it provides an opportunity for other companies to gain a better footing in the market, and possibly even try to enter service before Virgin. Last week Xcor Aerospace made... ...

Source: mundomisterio.portalmundos.com --- 128 days ago
Dos meses después de que la empresa Virgin Galactic anunciara que a partir del año 2009 despegarán sus primeros vuelos espaciales al precio de 200.000 dólares dos horas, contrataca la empresa de California Xcor Aerospace [...] ...

Source: www.flightglobal.com --- 49 days ago
Xcor Aerospace is by July to restart flight testing its XR-4K14 1,500lb-thrust (6.67kN) liquid oxygen/kerosene engine... ...

Source: www.aero-news.net --- 112 days ago
"In motor sports, the competition is not only between the men who drive or fly the machines, it is also between the manufacturers of the engines that power the racing vehicles. We have always respected the work done by Armadillo Aerospace, and welcome their participation in this league. It is sign of the increasing strength and maturity of the entrepreneurial space industry that companies needing rocket propulsion technology have multiple suppliers to choose from." Source: Jeff Greason, CEO of Mojave-based Xcor Aerospace, reacting to the news earlier this week the Rocket Racing League had selected Armadillo Aerospace to be another source for rocket engines in the RRL. Prior to that announcement, Xcor was the sole powerplant provider for the league. ...

Source: loanerjack.wordpress.com --- 99 days ago
This new kind of prototype rocket engine, fueled by methane, was built by Alliant Techsystems/Xcor Aerospace.  Although it is not ready for space this engine will by key to exploring the far reaches of space.  Simply breathtaking, take a look. ...

Source: nettelhorst.blogspot.com --- 53 days ago
Glenn Reynolds posts a report on the 27th International Space Development Conference (May 29-June 1, 2008) on The Atlantic's website: The main source of excitement at this year's conference was space tourism—folks in the industry prefer the term "personal spaceflight"—involving many companies, from the well-known (Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic) to the sort-of-known (Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin) to the comparatively obscure (Xcor Aerospace). Just this week it was announced that Google co-founder Sergey Brin plans to be a space tourist on a flight to the international space station in 2011. The space tourism business has, according to the results of a study presented at the conference, attracted over 1.2 billion dollars in investment, and grown its revenues from $175 million in 2006 to $268 million in 2007. That's peanuts compared to what NASA is spending on the Space Station or its Constellation project aimed at returning to the Moon, but it's real money and, unlike NASA's budget, it's growing. Read the whole article: Not Your Father's Space Program ...

Source: tomitheos.blogspot.com --- 114 days ago
Xcor Aerospace began test firing a fairly new jet design concept, this Methane Rocket Engine is to overcome some of the engineering challenges. This Xcor spacecraft named Lynx is a rocket ship type plane capable of sub-orbital flight to altitudes more than 60 kilometers above the ground. By definition this rocket engine is to lift the sub-orbital craft to a spaceflight altitude higher than 100 kilometers above sea level. Sub-orbital tourist flights will initially focus on attaining the altitude required to qualify as 'reaching space.' The take-off flight will be a highly juiced g-force ride, either vertical or very steep and landing very much like a plane or shuttle. The spacecraft will probably shut off its engines well before reaching maximum altitude and then coasting up to its highest point. Those few minutes from where the engines shut off to the point where the atmosphere begins to slow down the downward acceleration, the passengers will experience true 'weightlessness.' The Xcor Lynx being launched in Mojave California today; the spacecraft is expected to be scheduling regular flights by 2010. read the full Tomitheos story: http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/human-spaceflights-space-tourism-and-time-travel-reality ...

Source: alanbock.blogspot.com --- 86 days ago
Has it been four years already since Burt Rutan , backed by Paul Sperry of Microsoft and Richard Branson, the Virgin Atlantic guy, won the Ansari prize by getting an aircraft built by his company Scaled Composites into space and then doing it again within 30 days? Anyway, I went up to Mojave to see the final qualifying flight (joined by thousands of other enthusiasts). Saw Adrian Moore there and met a bunch of interesting people. Having met Burt Rutan at a Reason event and talked with him at some length, I believe he is probably in fact thrilled that he now has some competition in the commercial space race (at least a dozen hopefuls had booths or exhibits at Burt Rutan's event). Xcor Aerospace, also of Mojave (it's a small airport, with almost no commercial flights, which may be attractive to innovators), has a space ship it expects to have ready to fly in two years. The Air Force has given the company a contract as well, to demonstrate the spacecraft's capabilities. At least a half dozen other companies are designing space tourism vehicles, and even the FAA now thinks space tourism could be a !1 billion a year industry by 2021. I think it will happen faster than that. There's nothing like competition to spur innovation. As Burt Rutan has pointed out, the important thing is to get out there and start having fun, playing, experimenting. The Internet was available for years before people figured out what to do with it, and the ...

Source: www.geekologie.com --- 97 days ago
Thought Virgin Galactic had the public space travel market sewn shut? Well think again -- there's a new player coming to the game. The company, Xcor Aerospace, of Mojave, CA, announced that its two-seat Lynx suborbital spaceship will carry people or payloads to where they will experience weightlessness and see the stars above and the Earth and its atmosphere below. This will launch Xcor into the emerging space tourism market, estimated at over a half-billion dollars. The Lynx will offer affordable access to space for individuals, researchers and educators," said Xcor CEO Jeff Greason. "Future versions of Lynx will offer ever-improving capabilities for scientific and engineering research and commercial applications. The spaceship, roughly the size of a small private airplane, will first take off in 2010 and will be capable of flying several times each day. Rides will last approximately 30 minutes from take-off to landing, but there's no word on pricing yet. It's definitely going to be cheaper than $200,000 Virgin Galactic rides, but probably still expensive. My guess is a tentacled arm and leg! Get it? Because aliens have tentacled appendages. That was a space joke. Just like this one: Why doesn't NASA let me fly the space shuttle? Because I'm a fucking idiot! Another picture showing what a typical flight will consist of, along with a worthwhile video, after the jump. Xcor Aerospace Website Tha ...

Source: www.parabolicarc.com --- 42 days ago
Xcor Begins Lynx Build Rob Coppinger Hyperbola Blog Coppinger has photos of Xcor’s Lynx high-altitude tourism vehicle, now being assembled at the company’s facility in Mojave, Calif. Xcor Rocket Engine to Continue Flight Testing Rob Coppinger Flight Global Xcor Aerospace is by July to restart flight testing its XR-4K14 1,500lb-thrust (6.67kN) liquid oxygen/kerosene engine and the aircraft it propels, the Rocket Racing [...] ...

Source: www.startrekdb.se --- 128 days ago
Ett tvåsitsigt raketplan med namnet Xcor Lynx Mark I och mindre än ett privatjet, som kan ta pilot och passagerare på en halvtimmes rymdfärd visades upp vid en hangar i Mojaveöknen idag. Enligt tillverkaren Xcor Aerospace, skall ... ...

Source: www.futurepundit.com --- 121 days ago
When owning a Gulfstream 5 becomes passe the need arises to develop private spacecraft. The mini-ship, built by Mojave-based Xcor Aerospace and designed to fly to the edge of space,... ...

Source: www.dosci.org --- 116 days ago
Lynx is a rocket with two seats unveiled in Los Angeles as the first spaceship designed for tourism purposes. Xcor Aerospace have been working on liquid fueled rocket engines since 1999 in Mojave, California with the initial purpose of creating a reusable vehicle, that will fly often and with relatively low costs. They have a range [...] ...