AMSTERDAM (SXC PR) – It was on a beautiful spring night that members of the SXC team travelled to the south of the Netherlands to a little village called Deurne. This was in order to attend an event organised by one of SXC’s Founder Astronauts whom has proven himself, once more, to be a great ambassador of the exciting and noble cause that is Commercial Space.
Mr. Lodewijk-Jan Doensen, officially a medical doctor but truly a Space Advocate, was the master of ceremonies. A perfectly hosted event brought guests and attendees to rediscover the creation of the universe until the most recent developments in the space industry in which SXC is so strongly involved.
AMSTERDAM (SXC PR) — The Universe is not the only thing that is expanding.
So is SXC! This month we will be opening two new offices in New York and Hong Kong. That way we will be able to fulfill the specific needs for our customers from Asia and the Americas.
With the expansion of our organisation, I felt SXC could really benefit from a CEO that is a star in organising and optimizing a rapidly growing corporation like ours. We are all so proud our #1 candidate Georgette Schlick accepted our offer and joined our team. Together with her we will be working towards the end of our countdown: the first rocket powered test flights before the end of the year. Glad to have you all aboard!
Marie-Francoise Le Cornec Age: 74 Occupation: Pilot
“I am a flight addict!”
1. You have recently purchased a space ticket with SXC, what did this moment mean to you?
It was a very important moment for me.
I have flown so many times in a different aircraft and I was looking for the ultimate flight experience. That’s when my chief pilot told me that I should embark on a space flight and that it was now possible. I always thought I would not be able to undertake such a journey in this lifetime, and now look at me, I will be doing it! It’s great!
Air Force Days in Volkel, Netherlands
Friday 14th and Saturday 15th of June 2013.
Our SP-1 ( 1:1 scale model of the SXC Lynx) will be present here.
For more information : http://www.defensie.nl/luchtmachtdagen
NASA: A Human Adventure The Exhibition in Utrecht, Netherlands
13th of June 2013 until January 2014
Our 1:6 scale model will be present here. http://www.ahumanadventure.nl/
July
SXC Asia Launch
Monday the 8th of July 2013 in Hong Kong.
August
Desdemona Training Day on the 26th of August 2013
L-39 Training Day on the 27th of August 2013
Dallas, TX, June 14, 2013 (Citizens in Space PR) – Space isn’t just for governments and large corporations.
Citizen scientists and hardware hackers will learn how to do “space on the cheap” at a two-day Space Hacker Workshop in Dallas. Participants at the workshop will learn how they can build and fly experiments in space, and even fly in space as citizen astronauts, through the Citizens in Space program.
AMSTERDAM (SXC PR) — SXC partner Luminox was ‘the talk of the town’ during Baselworld last April. The Swiss tactical watch manufacturers presented their new SXC Space range during this internationally top rated trade fair. Centerpiece of the booth was the SP-2 full scale model of the Lynx spacecraft, and the new Luminox SXC television campaign.
The watches will be in stores by the end of this year, but the première will be reserved for SXC astronauts.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and XCOR Chief Pilot Rick Searfoss examine a mockup of the Lynx. (Credit: XCOR)
This just in from Mywesttexas.com:
The Midland City Council approved the nearly $4 million purchase of land by the Midland Development Corp. for land for north of Midland International Airport, a move expected to aid the city as it tries to obtain a spaceport designation.
The 374 acres is located north of the airport near Farm-to-Market Road 1788 between Highways 191 and 158. The deal is not to exceed $4.01 million….
Marv Esterly, director of airports for the city of Midland, said the deal wasn’t just about XCOR but other future airport development. Proposed development outside the airport, he said, should be compatible with future development of the airport and spaceport.
Amsterdam, 13 June 2013 (SXC PR) – The appointment of Georgette Schlick as CEO of SXC Group coincides with the expansion of SXC to New York and Hong Kong, in order to fulfill the specific needs for customers from Asia and the Americas.
Michiel Mol, SXC founder: “A rapidly growing corporation like SXC needs an internationally experienced CEO that knows how to manage and optimize business. We are extremely pleased to have an organizational talent like Georgette join our team.”
By Andrew Nelson
Chief Operating Officer,
XCOR Aerospace
Just a quick note while I have a moment to stop and reflect in the thick of NSRC 2013. Specifically, I want to address some new rules being proposed by the US State Department on export controls for manned suborbital space vehicles designed for commercial spaceflight.
At the end of May, the Department of State published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (or NPRM) Rule 78 FR 31 444 (pdf)– that did a great thing. The DoS proposed a move of commercial satellites from the US Department of Defense (DoD) Munitions List to the Department of Commerce’s commerce control list (CCL). This is a great step for the industry. Since the time commercial satellites were placed on the munitions list in 1999, the commercial satellite industry was almost wiped out.
WASHINGTON (NASA PR)– NASA has selected 21 space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons, and a commercial parabolic aircraft.
This latest selection represents the sixth cycle of NASA’s continuing call for payloads through an announcement of opportunity. More than 100 technologies with test flights now have been facilitated through NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate’s Flight Opportunities Program.
AMSTERDAM (SXC PR) – It was on a beautiful spring night that members of the SXC team travelled to the south of the Netherlands to a little village called Deurne. This was in order to attend an event organised by one of SXC’s Founder Astronauts whom has proven himself, once more, to be a great ambassador of the exciting and noble cause that is Commercial Space.
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