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NASA to Test Technology for X-59’s Unique Shock Wave Measurements
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NASA will soon test advancements made on a key tool for measuring the unique “sonic thumps” that its quiet supersonic…

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X-59 Fires Up its Engine for First Time on its Way to Takeoff
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Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA’s Quesst mission marked a major milestone with the start of tests on the…

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NASA’s X-59 Progresses Through Tests on the Path to Flight
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Lee esta historia en español aquí. The team preparing NASA’s X-59 continues through testing in preparation for the quiet supersonic aircraft to…

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NASA’s X-59 Passes Milestone Toward Safe First Flight 
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NASA has taken the next step toward verifying the airworthiness for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft with the completion of…

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NASA Instruments Will Listen for Supersonic X-59’s Quiet ‘Thump’
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NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is unique – it’s designed to fly faster than the speed of sound, but without causing…

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NASA X-59 Unveiled During Rollout Ceremony
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A climactic curtain drop reveals the newly painted red, white, and blue X-59 aircraft during its rollout ceremony on Jan.…

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NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft
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NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims…

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NASA’s X-59 Rollout Embodies Aeronautical Tradition
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Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA’s X-59 aircraft is heading out of the hangar – preparing to embark on…

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NASA Sets Coverage for X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Rollout
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Editor’s Note: This advisory was revised Thursday, Jan. 11, to include a new contact for reporters wishing to participate in…

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NASA Invites You to X-59 Rollout Watch Party
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It’s almost time for NASA’s supersonic X-59 airplane to make its red, white, and blue public debut, and you’re invited…

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Armstrong Flight Research Center: A Year in Review
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It was an abundant year of innovation, exploration, and inspiration for NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA…

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NASA’s X-59 Goes from Green to Red, White, and Blue
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NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft continues to make progress, most recently moving to the paint barn at Lockheed Martin Skunk…

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NASA Technologies Receive Multiple Nods in TIME Inventions of 2023
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As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its work, agency inventions aimed at monitoring atmospheric pollution, studying samples from asteroids,…

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NASA Test Piloting Legends Reunite
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Nils Larson, aerospace engineer and test pilot for NASA’s X-59 aircraft, met up with his former student, Artemis II astronaut…

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NASA Targets 2024 for First Flight of X-59 Experimental Aircraft
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NASA’s Quesst mission has adjusted the scheduled first flight of its X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft to 2024. A one-of-a-kind experimental…

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Forget Movie Magic, NASA Armstrong has the Real Thing
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Early in the blockbuster movie “Top Gun: Maverick,” U.S. Navy Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell takes the secret hypersonic “Darkstar” airplane…

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NASA to Showcase Revolutionary Aero Tech at Aviation Day Event
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NASA to Showcase Revolutionary Aero Tech at Aviation Day Event

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NASA’s X-59 Moves Closer to Runway
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This series of images shows NASA’s X-59 as it sits on the flight line — the space between the hangar…

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NASA’s Quesst: Reassessing a 50-Year Supersonic Speed Limit
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NASA will deliver the results to U.S. and international regulators, who will consider new rules that would lift the ban…

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Supercomputers Aid Quesst Researchers in Predicting X-59’s Sound
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Before the X-59 flies, NASA researchers are getting ahead of the curve by using computational fluid dynamics to create what…

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NASA’s X-59 Tail Installed
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NASA’s X-59 has undergone final installation of its lower empennage, better known as the tail assembly. NASA’s X-59 has undergone…

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Breathing under Pressure
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In preparation for high-altitude flight tests of NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59, NASA and Lockheed Martin personnel recently underwent pressure breathing training…

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NASA Armstrong Advances Shock Wave Photography
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Sound never looked so good! Using a special handheld camera, researchers at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California,…

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NASA Creating Tool to Predict Supersonic Jet Noise at Takeoff
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NASA researchers recently conducted a series of flights to record the sound of jet engines with the goal of using…

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Jet Engine Installed on NASA’s Quiet Supersonic X-59
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The engine that will power NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 in flight is installed, marking a major milestone in the experimental…

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Jet Engine Installed on NASA’s X-59
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NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 now has the engine that will power it in flight. The installation of the F414-GE-100 engine…

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NASA Poised to Break Sound Barrier in New Way
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Seventy-five years ago, a sonic boom thundered for the first time over the high desert of California. On the ground…

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X-59 Model Tested in Wind Tunnel in Japan
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A model of the X-59 aircraft, the centerpiece of NASA’s mission to gather information intended to help enable a new…

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Low-Speed Wind Tunnel Test Provides Important Data
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Before NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft can take to the skies, plenty of testing needs to happen to ensure a…

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New Name, Same Great Supersonic Mission
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Introducing Quesst. Evoking the experimental nature of flight testing and the spirit of aeronautical exploration, Quesst is what NASA is…

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