XCOR Aerospace

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.

Related Topics:
Mojave, California - Mojave Spaceport - Rotary Rocket

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XCOR is headed by Jeff Greason.

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Notable projects have included:

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• EZ-Rocket, a Rutan Long-EZ homebuilt aircraft fitted with two 400 lb thrust rocket engines replacing the normal propellor engine. EZ-Rocket has been flown at numerous airshows including the Oshkosh Airshow.
• 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 lb 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
 
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