Scaled Composites White Knight Two
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scaled-composites-white-knight-two-204-281146
title:
Scaled Composites White Knight Two
text:
The Scaled Composites Model 348 White Knight Two (WK2) is a quadjet cargo aircraft that was used to lift the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) spacecraft to release altitude. It was developed by Scaled Composites from 2007 to 2010 as the first stage of Tier 1b, a two-stage to suborbital-space crewed launch system. WK2 is based on the successful mothership to SpaceShipOne, White Knight, which itself was based on Proteus. With an "open architecture" design and explicit plans for multi-purpose use, the aircraft c
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SpaceShipTwo mother ship
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_White_Knight_Two
date created:
2005-08-15T21:27:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T22:06:47Z
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