A little over a month after a civilian jet broke the sound barrier, Boom Supersonic and ... The technology was developed in ...

Editor's note: Boom Supersonic successfully broke the sound barrier with the XB-1 today ... of the company's small Falcon 1 rocket. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...

Watch the astonishing true story of Flight 90, the plane that accidentally soared beyond Earth’s atmosphere and into space ... how close we sometimes come to breaking the barriers of aviation.

American aerospace startup Boom made history on Tuesday by breaking ... Air & Space Port in California, made it the first civil supersonic jet made in the U.S. to break the sound barrier.

Chuck Yeager flew a rocket-propelled experimental aircraft across the Mojave Desert -- taking off from the Mojave Air and Space Port just as the XB-1 did. Before today's sound barrier-breaking ...

I was thinking, "first manned, privately-funded vehicle to break the sound barrier" - but realized that the Brit ThrustSSC LSR got that record in 1997. kwalispecial January 29, 2025 08:47 AM I'm torn.

During the XB-1's historic flight on Tuesday—its 12th test flight overall—the aircraft stayed supersonic for around four minutes before breaking the sound barrier two more times during the ...

The move is part of NASA’s Quesst mission, which is working with aeronautical innovators at Lockheed Martin to create a plane that is capable of breaking the sound barrier while also doing it ...

Boom Supersonic achieved Tuesday its goal of breaking the sound barrier on its first attempt ... The flight took place at the same Mojave Air & Space Port site in Mojave, Calif., ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde ... This is how new space rocket technology is iterated on so quickly ...

Blake Scholl, founder and chief executive of Boom, said the company remains on pace to break the sound barrier by the end ... place at the same Mojave Air & Space Port facility as other tests ...

breaking new ground on each liftoff. For example, during its most recent flight, which occurred on Jan. 10, the XB-1 nosed right up to the edge of the sound barrier, reaching Mach 0.95.