{"id":2530,"date":"2009-12-19T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T09:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/xcor-wins-a-major-customer\/"},"modified":"2009-12-19T09:08:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T09:08:11","slug":"xcor-wins-a-major-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-flight\/xcor-wins-a-major-customer.php","title":{"rendered":"XCOR wins a major customer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>XCOR Aerospace announced this afternoon a major business development for the suborbital vehicle developer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xcor.com\/press-releases\/2009\/09-12-17_South_Korean_Space_Center_Selects_XCOR_and_LYNX_for_Suborbital.html\">a contract to provide suborbital space launch services for a South Korean organization<\/a>.  XOCR will provide and operate a Lynx Mark 2 vehicle to the Yecheon Astro Space Center under a &#8220;wet lease&#8221; model, pending export control approvals.   The center will use the Lynx for &#8220;space tourism, educational, scientific and environmental monitoring missions&#8221;, according to the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The center, formerly known as the Yecheon Astronomy Foundation, is not well-known, at least outside of Korea: the center&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portsky.net\/\">web site<\/a> is in Korean, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Yecheon+Astro+Space+Center&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a\">Google search<\/a> primarily turns up references to this announcement.  The press release states that the center has put together &#8220;a broad coalition of regional and national entities&#8221; to fund the project.<\/p>\n<p>That funding, estimated to be $30 million, could be critical to XCOR.  At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceinvestmentsummit.com\/sis7.html\">Space Investment Summit 7<\/a> conference in Boston in late September, XCOR COO Andrew Nelson said that the company was looking for abut $10 million in investment or sales to fund development of the Mark 2 vehicle, which will be able to fly to higher altitudes than the single Mark 1 prototype under development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XCOR Aerospace announced this afternoon a major business development for the suborbital vehicle developer: a contract to provide suborbital space launch services for a South Korean organization. XOCR will provide and operate a Lynx Mark 2 vehicle to the Yecheon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-flight\/xcor-wins-a-major-customer.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-flight"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}