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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
A Disruptive Technology Developing the Worlds First Fully Reusable - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
A Disruptive Technology Developing the Worlds First Fully Reusable - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
A Disruptive Technology Developing the Worlds 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
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Requirements for a Mature Space Transportation System
- Highly reusable, safe, reliable, efficient
propulsion system
- Rapid turnaround - high duty cycle
- Minimum maintenance
- Long life airframe
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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
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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
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Long-life airframe
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Safety
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Safety
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Lynx Suborbital Markets
- Private Astronaut flights - Mark I, II
- Suborbital science - Mark I, II, III
- Earth observations - Mark III
- Small satellite launch - Mark III
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Launch to LEO
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“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
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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.
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Non-Toxic RCS LOX Tanks Nonburnite ™ Piston Pumps Reusable/ Re-startable Propulsion Systems DOD RBS DOD RBS Capsules Satellites Fuel Depots Centaur / IVF
Upper Stages Landers
NanoSat Launch
Space Apps (Cryo) Non-Aerospace Cryogenic Apps
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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.
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Engineering culture
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Serendipitous events
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Disrupt markets: Communications satellite and terrestrial electric power
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