Another space entrepreneurial firm will take a stab at the record books next month with a point-to-point piloted rocket plane flight . On Dec. 3, XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, Calif., will fly its ...

Today XCOR Aerospace announced the completion of another successful round of tests on its 1,500 pound thrust liquid oxygen/kerosene rocket engine. The engine, the XR-4K14, is a prototype of the ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The race to offer commercial passengers an experience of a lifetime just got more affordable. RocketShip Tours owned by Jules Klar, a veteran in the travel business will arrange a sub ...

Xcor Aerospace is by July to restart flight testing its XR-4K14 1,500lb-thrust (6.67kN) liquid oxygen/kerosene engine and the aircraft it propels, the Rocket Racing League's X-Racer. After a flight ...

XCOR’s innovative piston pump technology took a ride from Roswell, NM to Mojave, CA in April 2012. “We debated how best to put many hours of wear time on the critical bearing components of our rocket ...

California-based XCOR Aerospace, developer of re-usable commercial rocket engines, demonstrated its EZ-Rocket testbed aircraft in the Mojave Desert on 12 November as part of efforts to raise ...

If successful, the Lynx will be the first craft to take off from a runway and fly to space. XCOR Aerospace / Mike Massee I can feel the heat from the rocket engine through my jeans, as well as the ...

Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG) and XCOR Aerospace, which develops and produces reusable rocket-powered vehicles and propulsion systems, today jointly announced a 15-year product sales agreement and a ...

The private space industry is a billionaire boys club. Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Paul Allen and Jeff Bezos have all founded companies that have spent tens of millions of their own and investors' ...