On July 18, 2025, NASA's experimental X-59 supersonic research aircraft basked in golden light on the ramp at Lockheed Martin ...

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 barrier ...

NASA’s X-59 supersonic demonstrator nears first flight, aiming to prove quiet supersonic travel and pave the way for overland ...

American space agency NASA is busy checking the safety systems and the procedures for the first flight of the X-59 supersonic aicraft.

NASA’s X-59 QueSST, or Quiet SuperSonic Technology, was conceived in a focused effort to resolve that pain point of air travel. The jet will test the mechanics of boom generation itself. It is as much ...

The craft is part of the US space agency's mission to find a way for ordinary planet travel to become much faster. Find out ...

As NASA's one-of-a-kind X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft approaches first flight, its team is mapping every step from ...

NASA's X-59 experimental quiet supersonic jet is to make the first flight, with safety informing every step from taxiing down the runway to landing. The first tests will be a closed low-altitude loop ...

If everything goes according to plan, NASA's Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) program will produce its first results as soon as this year, as the demonstrator plane built for it, the X-59, will ...

There hasn't been a supersonic commercial aircraft since the retirement of the Concorde in 2003. NASA is trying to change that. The Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST will test technology to fly faster, ...

LE BOURGET—Despite President Trump’s recent executive order directing the FAA to lift the long-standing ban on overland supersonic flight, the X-59 low boom demonstrator remains highly relevant, says ...