XCOR Aerospace is a private rocket engine and spaceflight development company based in Mojave, California at the Mojave Spaceport. It was formed by former members of the Rotary Rocket rocket engine development team in September, 1999. Mojave is a town located in Kern County, California. ... Mojave Airport, storage location for commercial airliners. ... The Roton test vehicle at the Mojave Airport. ...
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 worked at Intel. ...
Notable projects have included:
EZ-Rocket, a Rutan Long-EZ homebuilt aircraft fitted with two 400 lbf (1.8 kN) thrust rocket engines replacing the normal propellor engine. EZ-Rocket has been flown at numerous airshows including the Oshkosh Airshow.
The EZ-Rocket program led to the rocketplane design for the Rocket Racing League, which XCOR will be designing and building in 2005-2006.
Sphinx, the second rocketplane design to receive an FAA suborbital rocket license (the aircraft has not been built to date).
Tea cart engine, a 15 lbf (67 N) thrust rocket motor burning nitrous oxide and ethane, mounted on a small industrial cart. The tea cart engine has repeatedly been fired indoors at conferences and demonstrations and had accumulated over 1,100 firings and 6,000 seconds of run time by the end of 2003.
LOX-methane rocket engines in testing in 2005.
many other rocket engine projects
Long-EZ belonging to NOAA The Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ is a homebuilt aircraft with a canard layout designed by Burt Rutans Rutan Aircraft Factory. ... The Oshkosh Airshow (officially EAA AirVenture Oshkosh) is an annual gathering of aviation enthusiasts held each summer at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. ... The Rocket Racing League is a proposed racing league that would use rocket powered aircraft. ...
The Personal Spaceflight Federation is a private spaceflight industry group. ... The X prize logo shows a stylised letter X representing a spacecraft trajectory and containing a starfield. ... The X Prize Cup is an annual competition, hosted in New Mexico, in which private, piloted spacecraft will compete for prizes. ... A Regulus cruise missile was used for one attempt to deliver mail. ...
XCORAerospace is shaping its plans to pursue a suborbital space plane.
XCORAerospace is a California corporation, based in Mojave, California.
XCOR officials said they are very aware that the entrepreneurial space industry has suffered damage from companies and individuals that promise the sky, literally, but fail to deliver.
A small American aerospace company, founded in 1999 and based in Mojave, California, which specializes in designing, developing, and manufacturing rocket engines and rocket planes.
XCORAerospace makes the EZ Rocket, a modified Long-EZ homebuilt aircraft.
XCOR also supplies a variety of small, liquid-propellant rocket engines.
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