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XCOR Aerospace is an American private spaceflight and rocket engine development company based at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California and Midland International Air and Spaceport in Midland, Texas. XCOR was formed by former members of the Rotary Rocket rocket engine development team in September, 1999. XCOR is headed by John "Jay" Gibson who is CEO.〔 ==History== The company was founded in Mojave, California in 1999.〔 by Jeff Greason, Dan DeLong, Aleta Jackson and Doug Jones〔 〕 each off whom had previously worked at the Rotary Rocket company.〔 〕 In 2001, the XCOR designed and built EZ-Rocket, the first privately built and flown rocket-powered airplane. EX-Rocket made its maiden flight in July 2001, flown by test pilot Dick Rutan. Rick Searfoss, Chief Test Pilot in 2013, joined the company in the mid-2000s.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】url=http://xcor.com/team/pilots.html )〕 Scaled Composites record-setting test pilot Brian Binnie joined XCOR in 2014 as both a test pilot and engineer.〔 〕 XCOR announced a move of its development and manufacturing operations to Midland, Texas in July 2012. XCOR considered a number of locations for the move, including Spaceport Colorado,〔 〕 before announcing that they would be moving their company headquarters and R&D activities to Texas, in part due to a significant set of financial incentives (〔(Midland, Texas ideal destinations for aviation industry, officials say ), "a $10 million economic development deal"〕) offered to XCOR by the Midland Development Corporation (MDC) and the Midland City Council.〔 〕 In a 2015 financing round, XCOR attracted capital from Chinese venture firm Haiyin Capital for "vision" reasons, and not as a profitable investment. At the time of the financing round, the company was valued at $140 million. In mid-2015, John "Jay" Gibson succeeded Jeff Greason—CEO from 1997-2015—as CEO. Greason then became the Chief Technologist.〔〔(XCOR Aerospace Company Overview ), accessed 2009-02-19〕〔 (XCOR Aerospace Picks New CEO ), accessed 2015-07-21〕 In late-2015, three co-founders of XCOR, Jeff Greason, Dan DeLong, Aleta Jackson, left the company to found Agile Aero, an aerospace company focused on rapid development and prototyping of aerodynamic spacecraft.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「XCOR Aerospace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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