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NASA's X-59 moves under its own power

NASA announced a successful test of its X-59 aircraft at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif., that could lead to ...
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NASA's X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet rolls out for its 1st test drive (video)

NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...
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NASA Rehearses How To Measure X-59's Noise Levels

NASA test pilot Nils Larson walks around an F-15B research aircraft for a rehearsal flight supporting the agency's Quesst ...

NASA's X-59 supersonic jet could fly you from New York to Paris in half the time

NASA's X-59 supersonic jet, dubbed the "son of Concorde," has completed low-speed taxi tests, advancing toward its first ...
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NASA's X-59 rolls closer to supersonic flight – slowly

NASA's X-59 is taking slow steps towards supersonic flight, beginning taxiing tests at US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, ...
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NASA’s X-59: A Supersonic Jet Designed for a Quiet Future

The Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft is America's newest experimental plane. A time-lapse video released by NASA in early ...
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X-59 by NASA advances in testing and brings the era of silent supersonic flights closer

NASA has taken another step in the development of the X-59, an experimental aircraft that promises to drastically reduce ...

NASA’s X-59 Moves Closer to First Flight with Advanced Taxi Tests and Augmented Vision

NASA’s X-59, a 99-foot experimental aircraft developed with Lockheed Martin, has entered the taxi test phase at California’s ...

Forget jet lag: NASA’s X-59 could get you from New York to London in three hours and you won't even feel it

NASAs experimental X-59 supersonic jet has completed low-speed taxi tests in California, inching closer to its maiden flight. Developed under the Quesst mission, the aircraft is designed to fly faster ...
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X-59 NASA jet

The return of supersonic commercial flights over US soil is now in motion after President Donald Trump signed an executive order lifting a 52-year federal ban. The directive, issued on June 6, ...

SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites days after service outage

SpaceX launched 28 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Pad 40 in Florida at ...

NASA tests new ‘quiet’ supersonic plane capable of London-New York flight in under four hours

NASA has begun testing a new supersonic aircraft, almost 22 years after Concorde flew its last passenger service. The “quiet” X-59 research aircraft – 99.7 feet long, with a wingspan of 29.7 feet – is ...