The American XCOR Aerospace Dutch space SXC for an unknown amount acquired, it was announced Monday. XCOR Aerospace is currently developing the Lynx unit, which SXC space flights wants to offer.
The origin Breda-based Space Expedition Corporation, or SXC, is engaged with the ticket sales and the marketing of space travel for the general public. It is also responsible for trainings for customers. All the above activities, the company will now, after the acquisition, as a separate part of XCOR Aerospace, to continue to play, reports the American XCOR Aerospace. XCOR is currently working on the nine-meter-long Lynx spacecraft that SXC space. Lynx rises and lands just like a regular vliegvaartuig horizontally, but features which would transport so suborbitale space flights are possible. The spacecraft, which is about a composietframe and 7.5 metres wide, would be within a half hour to an altitude of one hundred kilometers, after which it again returns to the earth. With the acquisition want XCOR and SXC private space ‘more accessible’. There would be now more than 250 tickets, which is about 70,000 euro per piece costs, have been sold. The first customers of the new company, which is now approximately eighty employees, would be the beginning of next year go into space. This competes XCOR Virgin Galactic, that this year, his first commercial ‘spaceflight’ wants to offer. 
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