A new Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between XCOR Aerospace and the Planetary Science Institute (PSI). The document states that the human-operated Atsa Suborbital Observatory will conduct a series of observations from aboard Lynx spacecraft operated by XCOR.The understanding calls for PSI to have access ... |
12 July 2011
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A private partnership of companies in the United States has just tested a new type of rocket nozzle technology, that could contribute to making launches and steering maneuvers a lot safer. The successful hot-fire demonstration took place on March 22, as engineers from Mojave, California-based XCOR Aerospace and Cente... |
23 March 2011
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According to officials at XCOR Aerospace Inc., it would appear the the suborbital spacecraft they are developing, called the Lynx, has just passed a critical mission milestone, when it managed to complete its first supersonic wind tunnel test.The company is very pleased with the progress it's recording with the ... |
20 September 2010
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Investigators from the United Launch Alliance (ULA) and XCOR Aerospace, two key players in the private space industry, announced recently that they managed to create a piston pump that can function for liquid hydrogen. Previous investigations conducted last year showed that operations conducted with such pumps and hi... |
9 June 2010
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A California-based company called XCOR Aerospace is set to take people for a flight into space for as low as $95,000, less than half the price demanded by their competitors from Virgin Galactic. Although the conditions are not as good, the price and the view are definitely worth it. The tests will begin in 2010 and t... |
3 December 2008
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Apparently, there is no doubt about the winner of the Rocket Racing League's first race, since the competition that took place on Tuesday saw only one rocket plane in the sky, namely that of the XCOR Aerospace of Mojave. The Armadillo rocket plane did not receive the flight approval from the Federal Aviation Adm... |
30 July 2008
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Two of the most promising concepts in the quest to establish a future commercial space flight service, the Armadillo and the XCOR rocket planes, designed and built by the Armadillo Aerospace of Mesquite, Texas and by the XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, California, are scheduled to flight a head-to-head race next week, as p... |
23 July 2008
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There are possibly thousands of commercial air flights being carried out every day on Earth, however not even one commercial spaceflight. This is merely because there is no commercial spacecraft available at this moment capable of conducting more than one flight into space each day. To be more accurate, even the spac... |
26 March 2008
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