XCOR Aerospace has announced that the Lynx suborbital vehicle's Payload User's Guide (PUG) is now available online from XCOR's website. XCOR Program Manager Khaki Rodway noted that "publication of the guide is a significant evolutionary step for XCOR, our payload integration partners, and scientists and educators who are ready to use our suborbital reusable launch vehicle such as the participants in NASA's Flight Opportunities Program and our other commercial research customers."

The end user who downloads the Payload User's Guide online will also be registered to receive automatic updates.

The Payload User's Guide is central to each research and education mission (REM) flying with the Lynx. Designed to provide XCOR payload integration partners and REM specialists with information about the Lynx and its services, the guide gives direct access to vital information on the interfaces and requirements for experiments that will interface with the Lynx systems.

The guide will also enable customers to work more effectively with XCOR's Payload integration partners, who include Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio and Boulder, NanoRacks of Houston, TX, Spaceflight Services of Tukwila, Washington, Space Expedition Corporation of Curacao and Amsterdam, Yecheon Astro Space Center of South Korea, Cosmica of France, the African Space Institute in South Africa, EMXYS of Spain, Texas A and M's Space Engineering Research Center, and the Planetary Science Institute of Tucson.

"From atmospheric and microgravity research to earth observation, medical and educational experiments, the Lynx Payload User's Guide facilitates our current and future network of payload integration partners and customers around the globe.

"It provides each of them the core tools and information necessary to transform their experiments into payloads, and further outlines the unique opportunities Lynx offers for safe, reliable and repeatable experimentation and observation," noted XCOR Chief Operating Officer Andrew Nelson.