When we hear NASA, we automatically associate it with rockets and space exploration. Understandably so, considering news coverage about the agency largely focused on NASA's most groundbreaking ...

NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above Palmdale and Edwards, California, during its first flight Tuesday, ...

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X-59’s engine started for testing for the first time. NASA’s Quesst (“Quiet SuperSonic Technology”) mission recently achieved a key milestone as it began testing the engine that will power the X-59, ...

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Nov. 6 (UPI) --NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the aircraft can reduce sonic booms and make supersonic flight over ...

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The X-59 is designed to travel faster than the speed of sound without creating a loud sonic boom. The ultimate goal is to prove that quiet supersonic flight is a viable option for commercial airlines.

Both aircraft offer impressive capabilities.