XCOR Aerospace Acquires Rotary Rocket Assets

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A 5,000 lb-thrust lox-kerosene engine is fired at Rotary Rocket in 1999. Designs for such engines are among the assets aquired by XCOR.

Mojave - Apr 23, 2002
XCOR Aerospace announced today that it has acquired selected assets of the Rotary Rocket Company, including the full and exclusive rights to all technology developed by Rotary Rocket.

XCOR also acquired patents for various reusable launch vehicle technologies and certain equipment. The exclusive rights to the Rotary Rocket video and photo archive were included in the acquisition.

"Our team has previous experience with these technologies and can rapidly incorporate them into our products. This is not just an acquisition of papers in a file cabinet," said XCOR CEO Jeff Greason.

The company plans to use some of the Rotary Rocket technology in its own vehicle and engine designs and may also license technology to clients for other projects.

The rocket engine in the photo above was designed and built by XCOR principals while working for Rotary Rocket Company. It ran on liquid oxygen and kerosene at 5,000 lbf thrust at 1,500 psi chamber pressure. The combustion chamber was regeneratively cooled with liquid oxygen (the photo above shows an earlier ablatively cooled version).

XCOR has also has purchased the rights to the RRC hydrogen peroxide engine technology. In addition to the patents, a variety of other technological innovations developed at Rotary Rocket were acquired by XCOR. These also include designs and test data for composite liquid oxygen tank technology, and rocket engine injector technology.

XCOR Aerospace is a California corporation located in Mojave, California. The company is in the business of developing and producing safe, reliable and re-usable rocket engines and rocket powered vehicles.

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