High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Lynx rocketplane is a suborbital horizontal-takeoff, horizontal-landing (HTHL),rocket-powered spaceplane being developed by the California-based company XCOR to compete in the emerging suborbital space flight market. The Lynx is projected to carry one pilot, a ticketed passenger, and/or a payload or small satellites above 100 km altitude. As of December 2008, the passenger ticket was to cost $95,000. The Lynx was initially announced on March 26, 2008, with plans for an operational vehicle within two years. That date has since fallen to fall 2012. The Mark II would fly nine to eighteen months afterwards depending on how fast the prototype moves through the test program.