XCOR Aerospace was an American private spaceflight and rocket engine development company founded in 1999 and ceasing operations in 2017. They focused on developing reusable rocket engines and vehicles for suborbital and potentially orbital travel, with the goal of affordable space flight. Their projects included the Lynx rocketplane intended for space tourism and research, as well as liquid-hydrogen upper-stage engine development in collaboration with ULA. XCOR aimed to partner with spaceports and offered suborbital flights to the public.
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Midland Air and Space Port in West Texas received an FAA spaceport license to support launches by XCOR Aerospace for the Lynx suborbital spaceplane.
The Southwest Research Institute purchased flights on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and also purchased flights on the Lynx suborbital spaceplane developed by XCOR Aerospace.