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NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 research aircraft has cleared electromagnetic testing, confirming its systems will work together safely, without interference across…
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took another successful step toward flight with the conclusion of a series of engine…
NASA completed the first maximum afterburner engine run test on its X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft on Dec. 12. The…
Lee esta historia en Español aquí. NASA will soon test advancements made on a key tool for measuring the unique “sonic…
Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA’s Quesst mission marked a major milestone with the start of tests on the…
Lee esta historia en español aquí. The team preparing NASA’s X-59 continues through testing in preparation for the quiet supersonic aircraft to…
NASA has taken the next step toward verifying the airworthiness for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft with the completion of…
NASA has issued new grants to five universities to help develop education plans for the community overflight phase of the…
NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is unique – it’s designed to fly faster than the speed of sound, but without causing…
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…
Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA’s X-59 aircraft is heading out of the hangar – preparing to embark on…
It’s almost time for NASA’s supersonic X-59 airplane to make its red, white, and blue public debut, and you’re invited…
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft continues to make progress, most recently moving to the paint barn at Lockheed Martin Skunk…
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…
This series of images shows NASA’s X-59 as it sits on the flight line — the space between the hangar…
NASA will deliver the results to U.S. and international regulators, who will consider new rules that would lift the ban…
Before the X-59 flies, NASA researchers are getting ahead of the curve by using computational fluid dynamics to create what…
NASA’s X-59 has undergone final installation of its lower empennage, better known as the tail assembly. NASA’s X-59 has undergone…
Seventy-five years ago, a sonic boom thundered for the first time over the high desert of California. On the ground…
A model of the X-59 aircraft, the centerpiece of NASA’s mission to gather information intended to help enable a new…
Before NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft can take to the skies, plenty of testing needs to happen to ensure a…
Introducing Quesst. Evoking the experimental nature of flight testing and the spirit of aeronautical exploration, Quesst is what NASA is…
It appears the road to enabling a future that includes convenient commercial supersonic air travel over land demands a substantial…
The NASA and Lockheed Martin team behind the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) have recently removed the aircraft from its…
The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft is taking shape at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California.…
A heavy chorus of bolting and machinery filled the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, assembly building as engineers, system…
NASA recently flight tested a visual navigation system designed to enhance precise aerial positioning between two aircraft in supersonic flight.…
NASA’s X-59 requires the use of creative and strategic supersonic technologies to control and soften the jarring sound that hits…
NASA has awarded a contract to Harris Miller Miller & Hanson Inc. of Burlington, Massachusetts, to support a national campaign…
NASA is targeting 2022 for the first flight of the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) research aircraft. Its mission –…
