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Klyde Gives Up More Details Of His Falcon Heritage

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Parallax The apparent shift of an object’s position when viewed from different locations. Parallax, also called trigonometric parallax, is used to determine the distance to nearby stars. As the Earth’s position changes during its yearly orbit around the Sun, the apparent locations of nearby stars slightly shift. The stars’ distances can be calculated from those slight shifts with basic trigonometric methods.

Aero-Linx: The Lynx Suborbital Spacecraft The Lynx is XCOR’s entry into the commercial reusable launch vehicle (RLV) market. This two-seat, piloted space transport vehicle will take humans and payloads on a half-hour suborbital flight to 100 km (330,000 feet) and then return safely to a landing at the takeoff runway. Like an aircraft, Lynx is a horizontal takeoff and horizontal landing vehicle, but instead of a jet or piston engine, Lynx uses its own fully reusable rocket propulsion system to depart a runway and return safely. This approach is unique compared to most other RLVs in development, such as conventional vertical rocket launches and air-launched winged rocket vehicles “dropped” at altitude from a jet powere

“The release of the first fully conforming production aircraft is a significant accomplishment for Nextant and it brings us one step closer to our first retail delivery later this summer.” Source: Kenn Ricci, Nextant Aerospace founder, in advance of the showing of the first fully conforming production 400XT aircraft -- which will be unveiled next week at the 11th Annual European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland.