XCOR Lynx, the Glossary
The XCOR Lynx was a proposed suborbital horizontal-takeoff, horizontal-landing (HTHL), rocket-powered spaceplane that was under development by the California-based company XCOR Aerospace to compete in the emerging suborbital spaceflight market.[1]
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- Former proposed space launch system concepts
- Mojave Air and Space Port
- XCOR Aerospace
- XCOR aircraft
AdamWorks
AdamWorks, LLC (AdamWorks), is an American engineering and manufacturing organization specializing in designing, tooling and manufacturing of composite structures and mechanical systems.
Air & Space/Smithsonian
Air & Space/Smithsonian is a quarterly magazine published by the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., United States.
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Airbus Defence and Space Spaceplane
The Airbus Defence and Space Spaceplane, also called EADS Astrium TBN according to some sources, is a suborbital spaceplane concept for carrying space tourists, proposed by EADS Astrium (currently Airbus Defence and Space), the space subsidiary of the European consortium EADS (currently Airbus). XCOR Lynx and Airbus Defence and Space Spaceplane are proposed spacecraft, space tourism and spaceplanes.
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Airframe
The mechanical structure of an aircraft is known as the airframe.
Aluminium alloy
An aluminium alloy (UK/IUPAC) or aluminum alloy (NA; see spelling differences) is an alloy in which aluminium (Al) is the predominant metal.
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Apsis
An apsis is the farthest or nearest point in the orbit of a planetary body about its primary body.
Atmosphere
An atmosphere is a layer of gasses that envelop an astronomical object, held in place by the gravity of the object.
Atmospheric entry
Atmospheric entry (sometimes listed as Vimpact or Ventry) is the movement of an object from outer space into and through the gases of an atmosphere of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.
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Aviation Week & Space Technology
Aviation Week & Space Technology, often abbreviated Aviation Week or AW&ST, is the flagship magazine of the Aviation Week Network, a division of Informa.
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Axe Apollo sub-orbital spaceflights
The Axe Apollo space campaign was a private space venture which planned to provide sub-orbital spaceflight for 23 people on board the Lynx, a spacecraft still in development at the time of the launch of the venture. XCOR Lynx and Axe Apollo sub-orbital spaceflights are XCOR Aerospace.
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Carbon-fiber reinforced polymer
Carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (American English), carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers (Commonwealth English), carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics, carbon-fiber reinforced-thermoplastic (CFRP, CRP, CFRTP), also known as carbon fiber, carbon composite, or just carbon, are extremely strong and light fiber-reinforced plastics that contain carbon fibers.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
Chino Roque
Daniel Angelo Roque (born November 1990), also known as Chino Roque, was one of the 23 space cadets selected from more than 28,000 Filipino candidates by the Axe Apollo Space Academy in 2013 to fly to space with XCOR Lynx.
Composite material
A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material which is produced from two or more constituent materials.
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Composite overwrapped pressure vessel
A composite overwrapped pressure vessel (COPV) is a vessel consisting of a thin, non-structural liner wrapped with a structural fiber composite, designed to hold a fluid under pressure.
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Curaçao
Curaçao (or, or, Papiamentu), officially the Country of Curaçao (Land Curaçao; Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of Venezuela.
Cyanate ester
Cyanate esters are chemical compounds in which the hydrogen atom of the cyanic acid is replaced by an organyl group (for example aryl group).
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Expander cycle
The expander cycle is a power cycle of a bipropellant rocket engine.
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.
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Flight test
Flight testing is a branch of aeronautical engineering that develops specialist equipment required for testing behaviour and systems of aircraft or testing the atmospheric phase of launch vehicles and reusable spacecraft.
Florida Today
Florida Today is the major daily newspaper serving Brevard County, Florida.
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Fox News
The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.
Fuselage
The fuselage (from the French fuselé "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section.
G-force
The g-force or gravitational force equivalent is mass-specific force (force per unit mass), expressed in units of standard gravity (symbol g or g0, not to be confused with "g", the symbol for grams).
Hydrazine
Hydrazine is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.
Jeff Greason
Jeff Greason is a co-founder and the Chief Technologist of Electric Sky, a company developing the ability to wirelessly transmit power to moving vehicles. XCOR Lynx and Jeff Greason are XCOR Aerospace.
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Kayak (company)
Kayak (styled as KAYAK) is a metasearch engine for travel services, including airline flights, hotels, rental cars, and vacation packages.
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Kerosene
Kerosene, or paraffin, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum.
Layoff
A layoff or downsizing is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees (collective layoff) for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing (reducing the size of) an organization.
Liquid hydrogen
Liquid hydrogen is the liquid state of the element hydrogen.
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Liquid oxygen
Liquid oxygen, sometimes abbreviated as LOX or LOXygen, is a clear light sky-blue liquid form of dioxygen.
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Low Earth orbit
A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25.
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Mach number
The Mach number (M or Ma), often only Mach, is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound.
Metro International
Metro International is a Swedish media company based in Luxembourg that publishes the freesheet newspaper Metro. This newspaper is primarily intended for city commuters in business areas. The company was founded by Per Andersson and started as a subsidiary of the Modern Times Group along with Viasat Broadcasting.
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Midland International Air and Space Port
Midland International Air and Space Port (formerly Midland International Airport) is in the city limits of Midland, Texas, United States, about midway between Downtown Midland and Downtown Odessa, owned and operated by the City of Midland.
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Midland, Texas
Midland is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Midland County with small portions extending into Martin County.
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Mojave Air and Space Port
The Mojave Air and Space Port at Rutan Field is in Mojave, California, United States, at an elevation of.
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Mojave, California
Mojave (formerly Mohave) is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.
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Multistage rocket
A multistage rocket or step rocket is a launch vehicle that uses two or more rocket stages, each of which contains its own engines and propellant.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.
New Scientist
New Scientist is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology.
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New Shepard
New Shepard is a fully reusable sub-orbital launch vehicle developed for space tourism by Blue Origin. XCOR Lynx and New Shepard are space tourism.
Nitromethane
Nitromethane, sometimes shortened to simply "nitro", is an organic compound with the chemical formula.
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Piston pump
A piston pump is a type of positive displacement pump where the high-pressure seal reciprocates with the piston.
Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics (often abbreviated as PM or PopMech) is a magazine of popular science and technology, featuring automotive, home, outdoor, electronics, science, do it yourself, and technology topics.
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Pressure suit
A pressure suit is a protective suit worn by high-altitude pilots who may fly at altitudes where the air pressure is too low for an unprotected person to survive, even when breathing pure oxygen at positive pressure.
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Private spaceflight
Private spaceflight refers to spaceflight activities undertaken by non-governmental entities, such as corporations, individuals, or non-profit organizations.
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Reaction control system
A reaction control system (RCS) is a spacecraft system that uses thrusters to provide attitude control and translation.
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Regenerative cooling (rocketry)
In rocket engine design, regenerative cooling is a configuration in which some or all of the propellant is passed through tubes, channels, or in a jacket around the combustion chamber or nozzle to cool the engine.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Rocket Racing League
The Rocket Racing League was a racing league that planned to use rocket-powered aircraft to race a closed-circuit air racetrack. XCOR Lynx and rocket Racing League are XCOR Aerospace.
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Rocket-powered aircraft
A rocket-powered aircraft or rocket plane is an aircraft that uses a rocket engine for propulsion, sometimes in addition to airbreathing jet engines.
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Rocketplane XP
The Rocketplane XP was a suborbital spaceplane design that was under development c. 2005 by Rocketplane Kistler. XCOR Lynx and Rocketplane XP are Abandoned civil aircraft projects of the United States and spaceplanes.
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RP-1
RP-1 (alternatively, Rocket Propellant-1 or Refined Petroleum-1) is a highly refined form of kerosene outwardly similar to jet fuel, used as rocket fuel.
San Jose, California
San Jose, officially the paren), is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 13th-most populous in the United States.
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Satellite
A satellite or artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body.
Small satellite
A small satellite, miniaturized satellite, or smallsat is a satellite of low mass and size, usually under.
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Space tourism
Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes.
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Space.com
Space.com is an online publication focused on space exploration, astronomy, skywatching and entertainment, with editorial teams based in the United States and United Kingdom.
SpaceNews
SpaceNews is a print and digital publication that covers business and political news in the space and satellite industry.
Spaceplane
A spaceplane is a vehicle that can fly and glide like an aircraft in Earth's atmosphere and maneuver like a spacecraft in outer space. XCOR Lynx and spaceplane are spaceplanes.
Spaceport
A spaceport or cosmodrome is a site for launching or receiving spacecraft, by analogy to a seaport for ships or an airport for aircraft.
SpaceShipTwo
The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) was an air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. XCOR Lynx and SpaceShipTwo are Crewed spacecraft, space tourism and spaceplanes.
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Sub-orbital spaceflight
A sub-orbital spaceflight is a spaceflight in which the spacecraft reaches outer space, but its trajectory intersects the surface of the gravitating body from which it was launched.
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Superalloy
A superalloy, or high-performance alloy, is an alloy with the ability to operate at a high fraction of its melting point.
Takeoff and landing
Aircraft have different ways to take off and land.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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United Launch Alliance
United Launch Alliance, LLC (ULA) is an American launch service provider formed in December 2006 as a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Space and Boeing Defense, Space & Security.
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XCOR Aerospace
XCOR Aerospace was an American private spaceflight and rocket engine development company based at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California, Midland International Air and Spaceport in Midland, Texas and the Amsterdam area, the Netherlands. XCOR Lynx and XCOR Aerospace are Mojave Air and Space Port.
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XCOR EZ-Rocket
The XCOR EZ-Rocket was a test platform for the XCOR XR-4A3 rocket propulsion system. XCOR Lynx and XCOR EZ-Rocket are Mojave Air and Space Port and XCOR Aerospace.
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See also
Former proposed space launch system concepts
- Avatar (spacecraft)
- BAC Mustard
- Baikal (rocket booster)
- Black Horse (rocket)
- British Aerospace HOTOL
- CORONA (rocket)
- Canadian Arrow
- DH-1 (rocket)
- Douglas Astro
- HOPE-X
- Kankoh-maru
- Kliper
- Liquid fly-back booster
- McDonnell Douglas DC-X
- Saenger (spacecraft)
- Triamese
- XCOR Lynx
- XS-1 (spacecraft)
Mojave Air and Space Port
- Black Sky: The Race for Space
- Boeing X-37
- Calspan
- Interorbital Systems
- Lockheed Martin CATBird
- Masten Space Systems
- Mojave Aerospace Ventures
- Mojave Air and Space Port
- National Test Pilot School
- Rotary Rocket
- Scaled Composites
- Sharp Nemesis
- Sharp Nemesis NXT
- Stratolaunch Systems
- Stuart O. Witt
- The Spaceship Company
- VSS Enterprise crash
- VSS Unity VF-01
- VSS Unity VP-03
- XCOR Aerospace
- XCOR EZ-Rocket
- XCOR Lynx
XCOR Aerospace
- Axe Apollo sub-orbital spaceflights
- Jeff Greason
- Rocket Racing League
- XCOR Aerospace
- XCOR EZ-Rocket
- XCOR Lynx
XCOR aircraft
- XCOR Lynx
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOR_Lynx
Also known as Lynx (spacecraft), Lynx (spaceplane), Lynx rocketplane, XCOR Lynx Mark III, XCOR Lynx rocketplane, XCOR Xerus, Xerus (Spacecraft), Xerus (spaceplane).
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