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Offline QuantumG

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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #220 on: 01/12/2012 12:32 am »
Clark Lindsey has corrections for this article from XCOR:

  http://www.hobbyspace.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=34962

sigh.. Flightglobal.
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #221 on: 01/12/2012 01:18 am »
Okay, that all makes a lot more sense. (Doesn't seem Lynx Mk III will be hydrogen, but that's no surprise at all.)
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #222 on: 01/12/2012 08:40 am »
Just a quick question: when is XCOR expected to be making the first test-flights with the Lynx?

The reason for asking: Space Experience Curacao stated 2014 as the first year to fly suborbital passengers on the Lynx. I don't believe a word of that. I just don't see enough progress on Lynx to warrant the 2014 date feasible. Or am I missing anything?
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #223 on: 01/12/2012 09:04 am »
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #224 on: 01/12/2012 01:45 pm »
Quote from: lucspace on 01/12/2012 09:04 am
You did; just yesterday, it was announced a first flight in 2015 is not going to happen: http://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nu.nl%2Fwetenschap%2F2712498%2Fruimtevluchten-lelystad-nog-ver-weg.html

It says that the infrastructure in Curacao will not be ready in time. But I guess that the Lynx could still launch from the United States.
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #225 on: 01/12/2012 02:51 pm »
The first Lynx to be used for commercial use (actually, the Lynx Mk1) is set for test flights toward the end of this year. They'll want to do lots of suborbital tests (I'd put it at 100, but they may do several in one day once they get rolling, so that may not take that long) before taking the first paying customers (first they've got to take up all the XCor staff ;) ).

Lynx Mk II is set for rolling out 9-12 months after Lynx Mk I is. That will be the sort of model sent to the Caribbean.  2014 isn't completely unrealistic, actually, for when that Lynx could be delivered, if the infrastructure was ready, but I think 2015 seems more reasonable.
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #226 on: 01/12/2012 04:11 pm »
The article that was linked seems to imply that the infrastructure will never be built. Once the test flights begin, I wouldn't be surprised if XCor reaches a deal to launch from the United States. 
« Last Edit: 01/12/2012 04:25 pm by yg1968 »
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #227 on: 01/12/2012 11:39 pm »
So are they charging the same $95,000 that they were going to charge for the MarkII 106 km for the MarkI 61 km flights?
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #228 on: 01/13/2012 02:48 am »
Quote from: manboy on 01/12/2012 11:39 pm
So are they charging the same $95,000 that they were going to charge for the MarkII 106 km for the MarkI 61 km flights?
They may be using it for non-touristy passengers or other (suborbital research) payloads.
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #229 on: 01/27/2012 08:09 am »
If XCor are at Space Access this year they should be giving a *very* interesting presentation. By then the Mk1 Lynx should be quite well into assembly, the Mk2 might be in detailed design and hopefully something on the RL10 upgrade/replacement/comparison shopping project with Boeing.

<sign> Too bad I can't attend.

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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #230 on: 02/25/2012 03:51 am »
Whatever happened to XCOR's Rocket Racers?
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #231 on: 02/25/2012 05:34 am »
Quote from: Jason1701 on 02/25/2012 03:51 am
Whatever happened to XCOR's Rocket Racers?

 The Rocket Racing League is still trying to get started, but their latest rocket racer uses engines from Armadillo, not XCOR.
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Offline QuantumG

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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #232 on: 02/25/2012 05:40 am »
Quote from: Jason1701 on 02/25/2012 03:51 am
Whatever happened to XCOR's Rocket Racers?

To answer your question, there was a failure to pay a previously agreed amount on the XCOR Rocket Racer. XCOR sued and the matter was settled out of court. Part of the settlement was that the Racer was to be disassembled.
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #233 on: 02/25/2012 02:02 pm »
Quote from: john smith 19 on 01/27/2012 08:09 am
If XCor are at Space Access this year they should be giving a *very* interesting presentation. By then the Mk1 Lynx should be quite well into assembly, the Mk2 might be in detailed design and hopefully something on the RL10 upgrade/replacement/comparison shopping project with Boeing.

<sigh> Too bad I can't attend.

XCOR is pretty much always at Space Access, in force. It's part of the company culture.

~Jon
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #234 on: 02/29/2012 10:24 am »
XCOR Lynx fuselage delivered

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/xcor-lynx-fuselage-delivered-368903/

Wish they're learn how to spell.
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #235 on: 02/29/2012 05:39 pm »
Quote from: QuantumG on 02/29/2012 10:24 am
XCOR Lynx fuselage delivered

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/xcor-lynx-fuselage-delivered-368903/

Wish they're learn how to spell.

What did they misspell?
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #236 on: 02/29/2012 05:49 pm »
XCOR Aerospace Closes $5 Million Round of Investment Capital

http://xcor.com/press-releases/2012/12-02-27_XCOR_closes_investment_round.html
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #237 on: 02/29/2012 05:54 pm »
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #238 on: 02/29/2012 06:26 pm »
Quote from: QuantumG on 02/29/2012 10:24 am
Wish they're learn how to spell.
It's amusing when mistakes are made in the criticism of the mistakes of others!  ;)
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Re: XCOR and the Lynx rocket
« Reply #239 on: 02/29/2012 06:28 pm »
Quote from: QuantumG on 02/29/2012 10:24 am
XCOR Lynx fuselage delivered

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/xcor-lynx-fuselage-delivered-368903/

Wish they're learn how to spell.



Please! You spoiled some good news with a trifling matter.
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