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XCOR Aerospace
TypePrivate
FoundedSeptember 1999
HeadquartersMojave Spaceport
Key peopleJeff Greason
IndustryAerospace and space tourism
Productssuborbital spaceflight
Revenuen/a
WebsiteXCOR Aerospace

XCOR Aerospace is a private rocket engine and spaceflight development company based at the Mojave Spaceport in Mojave, California. The term privately held company refers to ownership of a business company in two different ways first referring to ownership by non-governmental organizations and second Jeff Greason is a founder of XCOR Aerospace, the Personal Spaceflight Federation, was the team lead at Rotary Rocket for engine development and previously For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" Aerospace engineering is the branch of Engineering behind the design construction and science of Aircraft and Spacecraft. Space tourism is the recent Phenomenon of tourists paying for flights into space pioneered by Russia In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight is a Spaceflight in which the Spacecraft reaches space, but its Trajectory intersects In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A rocket engine is a Jet engine that uses only Propellant mass for forming its high speed propulsive jet. Spaceflight is the use of Space technology to fly a Spacecraft into and through Outer space. Mojave is a Census-designated place (CDP in Kern County, California, United States. XCOR was formed by former members of the Rotary Rocket rocket engine development team in September, 1999. Rotary Rocket Inc, was a rocketry company headquartered in a facility at Mojave Airport that developed the Roton concept in the late 1990s as a fully reusable XCOR is headed by Jeff Greason. Jeff Greason is a founder of XCOR Aerospace, the Personal Spaceflight Federation, was the team lead at Rotary Rocket for engine development and previously

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Projects

The prototype Rocket Racer, a modified Velocity SE climbing to 10,000 feet on it first full flight, October 29, 2007 at the Mojave Spaceport
The prototype Rocket Racer, a modified Velocity SE climbing to 10,000 feet on it first full flight, October 29, 2007 at the Mojave Spaceport
The Rocket Racer on landing roll-out at Mojave.
The Rocket Racer on landing roll-out at Mojave. The Velocity SE is the entry level canard pusher aircraft from Velocity Aircraft. Events 437 - Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
Aft view of the Rocket Racer on landing roll-out at Mojave.
Aft view of the Rocket Racer on landing roll-out at Mojave.

Projects have included:

Lynx is roughly the size of a small private airplane. It would be capable of flying several times a day making use of reusable, non-toxic engines to help keep the space plane's operating costs low.

References

  1. ^ XCOR Aerospace Begins Test Firing of Methane Rocket Engine. XCOR Aerospace.

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The Personal Spaceflight Federation is a Private spaceflight industry group incorporated as an industry association for the purposes of establishing ever higher levels of safety The Ansari X PRIZE was a Space competition in which the X PRIZE Foundation offered a US$ 10000000 Prize for the first non-government Rocket mail is the delivery of Mail by Rocket or Missile. The rocket would land by deploying an internal parachute upon arrival
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