XCOR Aerospace has completed the primary supersonic wind tunnel testing of the Lynx suborbital spacecraft at the Nasa Marshall Space Flight Center.
The tests performed on a precision scale model demonstrated the integrity of the Lynx aerodynamic shape and provided the data needed to make final refinements to the vehicle.
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The new data ensures that the Lynx aerodynamic shape will have stable and controllable flights throughout a range of Mach numbers and angles of attack needed for the Lynx mission.
Lynx, a two-seat, single-stage winged suborbital vehicle, is powered by non-toxic, reusable rocket engines.
The vehicle is designed to carry a pilot, one spaceflight participant, and engineering and scientific payloads and can be flown up to four times a day with minimal touch labour between flights.
The recent tests add to subsonic wind tunnel testing data obtained by XCOR late last year.
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