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 or else ...

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 all ...

XCOR Aerospace is developing the Lynx, a two-seat reusable suborbital spaceplane. Credit: XCOR Aerospace WASHINGTON — XCOR Aerospace, a company best known for attempting to build a reusable suborbital ...

In 2008, a small, Mojave, Calif., aerospace start-up called Xcor Aerospace burst onto the commercial space scene with plans to develop a vehicle that would rocket tourists into suborbital space. Xcor ...

XCOR Aerospace said it closed $5 million in funding. Investors include Esther Dyson, Pete Ricketts (co-owner of the Chicago Cubs) and several top Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and former venture ...

It is bound to happen. There are so many space vehicles being designed, tested, and funded that some will never fly. This weekend XCOR—the private space company based in Mojave, CA, but soon to move ...

For thelast eight years privately held XCOR Aerospace Inc. has taken a slow,methodical approach to achieving its vision for reusable orbital spacetransportation. "It hasbeen a hard slog and continues ...

MOJAVE, Calif. — Commercial astronaut Brian Binnie, who piloted the suborbital SpaceShipOne on a famous $10-million prize-winning flight nearly a decade ago, has been named XCOR Aerospace's senior ...

The scrappy space start-up Xcor Aerospace is ready to begin selling tickets to tourists who have a hankering to soar 37 miles up to the edge of space, the company announced today. It also presented ...