2025年2月7日 · NASA and Lockheed Martin publicly unveil the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft at a ceremony in Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission, which seeks to solve one of the major barriers to supersonic flight over land, currently banned in the United States, by ...

2025年2月7日 · One is to design and build NASA’s X-59 research aircraft with technology that reduces the loudness of a sonic boom to a gentle thump to people on the ground. ... Elements of NASA’s Quesst mission are organized within two of the agency’s aeronautics programs — the Advanced Air Vehicles Program and the Integrated Aviation Systems Program ...

The Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst ("Quiet SuperSonic Technology"), sometimes styled QueSST, is an American experimental supersonic aircraft under development by Skunk Works for NASA's Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator project. [2] Preliminary design started in February 2016, with the X-59 planned to begin flight testing in 2021. After delays, as of January 2025, it is planned to be delivered to NASA ...

2025年2月7日 · The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission, which seeks to survey the public’s response to quieter supersonic flight and provide data to regulators to consider removing the current ban on commercial supersonic flight over land, opening the future to reduced flight times around the country and the world. ...

X-59 will demonstrate technology to fly faster than sound as NASA gathers community feedback data. The data gathered from the X-59 may open the future to commercial supersonic flight over land. X-59. Faster. Quieter. Quesst

2024年12月30日 · The X-59 aircraft builds on decades of supersonic flight research and is the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission. After years of testing, teams across NASA and Lockheed Martin settled on the aircraft’s distinct shape, which will enable the aircraft to fly at supersonic speeds and reduce a loud sonic boom to a quieter “sonic thump.”

www.nasa.gov Prediction Tools and Validation 17 In preparation for community response testing, NASA is creating a suite of prediction tools to support timely and accurate validation of the acoustic performance of the X-59 aircraft, rapid pre-flight exposure planning for Community Testing, and provide a foundation for future configuration

The X-59 will feature innovative technology to reduce loud sonic booms to a quiet thump. Supersonic X-plane history X-planes are experimental U.S. airplanes and rockets that test new technologies and aerodynamic concepts.

2024年5月3日 · Quesst Mission. Activity Summary Status: Active. ... The engineers of ASAB, other NASA centers, and Lockheed designed X-59 to divert the shockwaves, softening the boom so only a light <thump> will reach civilians below. The first flights above civilians will occur in 2024, when select communities will assess the noise level produced by the X-59 ...

2024年1月14日 · Quesst is NASA’s mission to demonstrate how the X-59 can fly supersonic without generating loud sonic booms, and then survey what people hear when it flies overhead. Reaction to the quieter sonic “thumps” will be shared with regulators who will then consider writing new sound-based rules to lift the ban on faster-than-sound flight over land.