Languages: English, Spanish NASA is developing a new supersonic plane. Will it measure up to the iconic Concorde—the world's first passenger jet capable of flying faster than the speed of sound?

The loud, explosion-like bang – caused by a plane flying faster ... Concorde or any other supersonic aircraft that exist today,” Craig Nickol, senior adviser at NASA Headquarters, told CNN ...

Supersonic commercial flights were once the fastest way to fly, but Concorde jets have been out of service for more than two ...

NASA will use 30 ground recording stations to monitor the sound produced by the X-59 QueSST experimental aircraft. Learn more about the equipment they will be using here. Credit: NASA ...

The first reveal of NASA's X-59 supersonic plane onstage at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. Credit: NASA / YouTube Over a half-century ago, the U.S. banned ...

Together with Lockheed Martin, we've unveiled our new X-59 supersonic plane. The X-59 will fly later this year on the #Quesst mission to test quieter sonic booms: https://go.nasa.gov/48wk1W2 What ...

This comes as NASA is starting to test its own X-59 supersonic plane to make sonic booms quieter. NASA has reached another milestone in its plans to develop supersonic planes that could take ...

will do so in a bid to measure the noise level generated by the supersonic demonstrator. To see if that affects the X-59, NASA and Lockheed Martin put the plane on the tarmac right next to the F ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin on Friday unveiled to the public its new X-59 plane, an experimental aircraft that will demonstrate the ability to fly supersonic while generating a gentle “sonic thump ...