NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

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Their approval promises to drastically cut travel times, driving technological innovation and a global competition that could ...

Supersonic flight began with dangerous experiments in the 20th century and culminated in Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier in 1947 with the Bell X-1. Commercial supersonic travel briefly thrived ...

A new executive order repeals a 52-year-old ban on commercial supersonic flights, while new technology can make supersonic ...

More NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft continues to make progress toward its first flight with a new successful round of testing. The X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet was designed to break the sound ...

More than two decades after Concorde’s retirement, commercial aviation is once again preparing to break the sound barrier.

Starting on Oct. 30, engineers with NASA's X-59 Quesst program (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) have been conducting test runs of the jet's engines at the storied Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility ...

NASA’s Supersonic X-59 Powers Up for the First Time: Maiden Flight Nears We’re that much closer to the future of commercial supersonic flight, as NASA fired up the engines of its supersonic X ...

NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the aircraft can reduce sonic booms and make supersonic flight over land quieter.

NASA's X-59 aircraft has been marching toward a fest flight since it entered development in 2016 with the goal of bringing back commercial supersonic travel. Next, the agency will test jet-mounted ...

The project is the work of the American space agency and it is part of a program called Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST). On the drawing table since close to a decade ago, QueSST is meant to ...