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Saturday, 08 June 2013 18:14

Scaled Composites

Scaled Composites is an aerospace company.

The company focuses on designing and developing concept craft and prototype fabrication processes for aircraft and other vehicles. It is known for unconventional designs, for its use of non-metal, composite materials, and for winning the Ansari X Prize with its experimental spacecraft SpaceShipOne.

Owned by Northrop Grumman (June 2013), the company is located at the Mojave Spaceport, Mojave, California, United States.

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Thursday, 30 August 2012 16:38

SpaceShipOne

SpaceShipOne is a suborbital air-launched spaceplane that completed the first manned private spaceflight in 2004. That same year, it won the US$10 million Ansari X Prize and was immediately retired from active service. Its mothership was named "White Knight". Both craft were developed and flown by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, which was a joint venture between Paul Allen and Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan's aviation company.

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