Saturday, March 29, 2008

A new space rocket from private company

See here.

Very interesting:
"... Xcor intends to be a spaceship builder, with another company operating the Lynx and setting prices.

The Lynx is designed to take off from a runway like a normal plane, reach a top speed of Mach 2 and an altitude of 200,000 feet, then descend in a circling glide to a runway landing.

Shaped something like a bulked-up version of the Rutan-designed Long-EZ homebuilt aircraft, its wings will be located toward the rear of the fuselage, with vertical winglets at the tips.

Powered by clean-burning, fully re-useable, liquid-fuel engines, the Lynx is expected to be capable of making several flights a day, Xcor said.
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