ABOVE: The X-59 was unveiled during a ceremony at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works Palmdale, California facility The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Lockheed Martin have formally ...

The X-59 is a supersonic test aircraft being developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin. Its main purpose is to turn the sonic boom into a mild thump when hitting Mach 1.

The X-59 is a supersonic test aircraft being developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin. Its main purpose is to turn the sonic boom into a mild thump when hitting Mach 1.

Still ahead for the X-59. With aluminum bird testing in the rearview mirror, the next milestone on the X-59's path to first flight is taking the airplane out on the taxiways at the airport adjacent to ...

NASA’s quiet supersonic research aircraft, the X-59 aircraft, has completed an essential round of testing without ever leaving the ground. These evaluations mark a key milestone in the agency’s ...

The Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft is America's newest experimental plane. A time-lapse video released by NASA in early 2020 shows the progress of the X-59, which has been referred to as the ...

Keep in mind that the X-59, which is powered by a single General Electric F414-GE-100 jet engine that develops 22,000 pounds of thrust, can fly at speeds of Mach 1.4 (925 mph/1,729 kph) and ...

NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet has successfully passed electromagnetic testing, confirming its systems won’t interfere with one another. Engineers examined communications, navigation, and landing gear ...

NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic jet undergoing electromagnetic interference (EMI) testing at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California alongside one of the agency's F-15D research aircraft.

To see if that affects the X-59, NASA and Lockheed Martin put the plane on the tarmac right next to the F-15, at a distance of 47 feet (14 meters) at first, and then at 500 feet (152 meters).

From time to time, the U.S. military shows glimpses of its X-37B spaceplane, which can travel to space for years at a time.. We just got another glimpse. The U.S. Space Force — which took the ...