Tag: XCOR Aerospace
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XCOR Aerospace lays off all employees, throwing rocket projects into limbo
XCOR Aerospace had to put work on the Lynx suborbital space plane on hold. (XCOR Illustration) After more than a year’s worth of workforce shrinkage, XCOR Aerospace has laid off the remainder of its employees – putting projects ranging from its Lynx suborbital space plane to its work on rocket propulsion systems into deep limbo.…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture gets set to pick up the pace for spaceship test flights
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship rises from its launch pad in June. (Credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, plans to accelerate its current once-every-eight-weeks schedule for flight tests of its New Shepard suborbital spaceship, leading up to the first crewed flights next year, one of the company’s…
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XCOR Aerospace co-founders launch new startup: Agile Aero for the next frontier
In a 2013 photo, Jeff Greason inspects XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx rocket engine while Doug Jones (at left) looks on. Greason has left XCOR and is creating a new venture called Agile Aero, while Jones is staying on with XCOR. (Credit: XCOR Aerospace) XCOR Aerospace pioneered the rapid development of rocket propulsion systems, and now three…