XCOR Aerospace announced today that the XCOR Lynx Mark I cockpit has been delivered. AdamWorks engineers, along with XCOR engineers, performed several successful pressure tests before it was packed and shipped to XCOR. <\/p>\n
The cockpit is the principle major subassembly XCOR needs to begin assembly of the Lynx suborbital spaceplane. <\/p>\n
\"The successful pressure testing of the Lynx cockpit and its delivery is a major milestone for us,\" said XCOR Founder and CEO Jeff Greason. \"This will enable us to accelerate toward integration, ground testing and first flight over the rest of this year.\" <\/p>\n
Andrew Nelson, Chief Operating Officer of XCOR added, \"Our clients and partners are very happy to see this significant sign of progress. I could not be more happy with our designers, engineers and team who have worked so hard on this major accomplishment. We are that much closer to suborbital operations.\" <\/p>\n
XCOR Aerospace: XCOR Aerospace is based in Mojave, California. It is currently creating a Research and Development Center in Midland, Texas, and will be establishing an operational and manufacturing site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. XCOR builds safe, reliable and reusable rocket-powered vehicles, propulsion systems, advanced non-flammable composites and rocket piston pumps. XCOR works with aerospace prime contractors and government customers on major propulsion systems, while also building Lynx. Lynx is a piloted, two-seat, fully reusable liquid rocket-powered vehicle that takes off and lands horizontally. The Lynx family of vehicles serves three primary missions depending on their specific type including: research and scientific missions, private spaceflight and micro satellite launch (only on the Lynx Mark III). Lynx production models (designated Lynx Mark II) are designed to be robust, multi-mission (research\/scientific or private spaceflight) commercial vehicles capable of flying to 100+ km in altitude, up to four times per day. Lynx vehicles are available to customers in the free world on a wet lease basis to start their own manned space flight program. Learn more at http:\/\/www.xcor.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n Please follow SpaceRef on Twitter and Like us on Facebook. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Continued here: <\/p>\n XCOR Aerospace Receives Lynx Mark I Cockpit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" XCOR Aerospace announced today that the XCOR Lynx Mark I cockpit has been delivered. Continue reading