XCOR Aerospace Lynx Rocketplane

5 responses to “XCOR Aerospace Lynx Rocketplane”

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   jurvetson

   Feb 15, 2013 at 5:15 am

   With Craig Venter and Naveen Jain in the background, here’s a 2-second pulse burn of their regeneratively-cooled 2" RCS engine with a novel non-toxic propellant and the video
   

   

   Seth Green asked which switches fire the main engines…
   

   Another hot seat outside:
   

   Gas cart:
   

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   scleroplex

   Feb 15, 2013 at 9:51 am

   excellent!

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   the_other_ben

   Feb 16, 2013 at 10:56 pm

   The last photo should be in the Masten set, not the XCOR set. Nice to see some progress photos!

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   jurvetson

   Feb 17, 2013 at 1:34 am

   Right you are. And wow, you know the place! I moved the Masten cart to the proper place and replaced the one above with a XCOR cart…

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   rclague

   Feb 21, 2013 at 12:42 pm

   The last photo is the gas trailer, high pressure helium and nitrogen. The sphere holds liquid nitrogen, which boils off and fills the nitrogen bottles.

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