Talk:Scaled Composites Tier 1b

Tier Two

I believe Rutan and Scaled Composites are using the moniker "Tier Two" for the SpaceShipTwo program. Anyone else heard of Tier 1b?

That's for SpaceShipThree 70.51.9.206 (talk) 05:23, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

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Done. Michaelmas1957 23:59, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

SS2

This article needs updating from 2008 onwards. WK2 Eve started then, but SS2 Enterprise has also started testing. It's been taken aloft already, so some summary of that should exist here. 65.93.14.196 (talk) 09:24, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Updating/improving

I'm now in the middle of a major revision to this article, removing the badly outdated info from half a decade ago and replacing it with recent info and citations. I also intend to include a relevant image of SS2 and/or WK2. Michaelmas1957 23:26, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Finished now. I'll continue to update this article as SS2 and WK2 are developed further. Michaelmas1957 23:58, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Does "Tier 1b" exist today? And does TSC have such a program"

I've removed a good bit of material that seems, per sources, to be in no way related to any sort of a TSC "Tier 1b" program.

In addition, I've challenged a number of the other statements in the lede that purport to say that The Spaceship Company has a "Tier 1b" program. There seem to be no sources for that either.

Moreover, it is not even clear, based on verifiable sources in the article, that a Tier 1b program ever existed, even at Scaled Composites in 2004 or 2005, back when Burt Rutan was still involved in that company.

If it did exists after the mid-2000s, or if it still exists today in some other entity, we just need to add sources and copyedit to get the article up to standard.

But if not, then we should look for such sources for a while, then consider downsizing the claims further, or even propose the article for an AfD discussion. — N2e (talk) 13:56, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Whatever it is called, it is real, since flight hardware exists, WK2 and SS2, SS2 Enterprise even crashed in 2014. And the combination of SS2/WK2 is a platform, for which we have a sourced early name, so it is real. -- 65.94.40.137 (talk) 08:44, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Oh yeah, WK2 and SS2 are definitely real. And the name "Tier 1b" was the internal project name in Scaled given to the program in 2005. That is all correct. But there is no source that I've seen to indicate that "Tier 1b" is, or ever was, associated with The Spaceship Company (which is a claim implicit in the article title) nor that the name even survived after circa 2005 as a project name.

Moreover, a separate question would be do we need a separate Wikipedia article for a code name for a program, separate from the WhiteKnightTwo aircraft and SpaceShipTwo spaceplane? I'm beginning to think not. But I have not yet proposed the article for deletion to undertake a wider discussion. Cheers. N2e (talk) 01:13, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

BTW, I struck out a sentence in my Nov 2014 comment, since we do have a source for that particular detail about 2005; still needing sources for much else. N2e (talk) 01:17, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

After months of looking for sources, none have been located to indicate that The Spaceship Company even has a Tier 1b program. This was an internal program name for a program at Scaled Composites, for which we have one source from 2005. Definitely the wrong name on this article. I will propose a move. N2e (talk) 11:21, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

What we have is a real program, that exists and is ongoing, for which we lack the current name. We have a name, from the program inception, and we can see the program is real, since the platform of WK2/SS2 is in the news. What is lacking is the current program name, not the fact that it is a current program, which is clearly evident in the development of WK2/SS2; and it is a platform, from sources in the SS2/WK2 articles. -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 09:54, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 12 April 2015

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Harej (talk) 15:24, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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The Spaceship Company Tier 1b → Scaled Composites Tier 1b – after months of looking for sources, none have been located to indicate that The Spaceship Company even has a Tier 1b program. Tier 1b was an internal program name for a program at Scaled Composites, for which we have one source from 2005. There is some question whether this article even meets WP:GNG, but the name of the article is definitely incorrect. See documentation on the article Talk page. N2e (talk) 11:21, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

• Support TSC only manufactures this, it was designed by Scaled and developed by Scaled, and the technology is owned by MAV, for which Virgin currently holds an exclusive license -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 09:46, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

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