A Disruptive Technology Developing the World’s First Fully Reusable Spacecraft Lee Valentine, Director, XCOR xcor.com
VIDEO - LUMINOX SPACE COMMERCIAL from SXCSpaceline http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLTdrZTjwN8
Requirements for a Mature Space Transportation System • Highly reusable, safe, reliable, efficient propulsion system • Rapid turnaround - high duty cycle • Minimum maintenance • Long life airframe
Highly reusable, safe, reliable, efficient propulsion system VIDEO: XCOR Aerospace 67 second pump fed rocket engine firing on Lynx fuselage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heJrqF0RWvY
Rapid turnaround - high duty cycle VIDEO: XCOR Prototype X-Racer being refuelled in under 8 1/2 minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dWCI4S4fGg
Long-life airframe
Safety
Safety
Lynx Suborbital Markets • Private Astronaut flights - Mark I, II • Suborbital science - Mark I, II, III • Earth observations - Mark III • Small satellite launch - Mark III
Launch to LEO
“For any successful engineering development you need the right people on the job, the wrong people off the job, and enough money.” - Guido von Pirquet
Funding MOVIE - Not Online - From 2009 - 10 Years of Safety and Innovation. Show reel of technology development over XCOR’s first 10 years. All work done for customers.
Non-Aerospace Cryogenic Apps Capsules Satellites Space Apps (Cryo) LOX Tanks Non-Toxic RCS Nonburnite ™ DOD RBS DOD RBS Reusable/ Re-startable Piston Pumps Propulsion Systems Centaur / Fuel Depots Upper NanoSat IVF Landers Stages Launch
Low-cost development of aerospace hardware Comparison to the X-15 program plus the Vanguard program: X-15 cost in present-day dollars is $1,750,000,000. The cost of Vanguard in present-day dollars is $780 million, for a total of 2 1/2 billion dollars.
Engineering culture
Serendipitous events
Disrupt markets: Communications satellite and terrestrial electric power
Lee Valentine leesvalentine@gmail.com 412-418-0177 xcor.com
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