Last week, space company XCOR Aerospace announced that it was laying off its remaining workforce, but not closing its doors completely. "Due to adverse financial conditions, XCOR had to terminate ...

XCOR Aerospace, a company that for nearly 20 years had been working on rocket engines and a suborbital spaceplane, filed for bankruptcy Nov. 8 after it was unable to line up new investors.

XCOR developed a number of engines, including versions flown on a modified Long-EZ airplane called EZ-Rocket. XCOR is best known in the industry for Lynx, a suborbital spaceplane announced in 2008 ...

XCOR has so far already sold over 300 tickets for its suborbital flights, over 10% of which have been sold to people in mainland China - including some notable celebrities.

XCOR was originally scheduled to discuss its vehicle development plans during a June 2 panel session at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference in Broomfield, Colorado.

The private spaceflight company XCOR Aerospace is getting a new CEO. Representatives with XCOR Aerospace — the company responsible for developing the Lynx space plane — announced today (March ...

WASHINGTON — XCOR Aerospace, a company forced to lay off its staff earlier this year when it ran into financial problems, has only weeks left to find an investor willing to rebuild the company ...

Once a darling of the Mojave aerospace start-up scene, space plane builder Xcor Aerospace has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. A court document filed last week with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for ...

The Lynx wind tunnel model with complete set of control surfaces XCOR Aerospace employees study the Lynx spacecraft model. 5K18 engine testing for the Lynx spacecraft continues through winter and ...

Mojave, California's growing reputation as the Silicon Valley of personal spaceflight heated up last week with Xcor Aerospace's signing of a second wet-lease deal for its Lynx suborbital concept.

Xcor eventually raised at least $19.2 million, according to Crunchbase, a platform that tracks fundraising. Customers who wanted to be among the first 100 people to ride the Lynx paid $100,000 ...