6 天之前 · 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 making sonic booms quieter.

2024年1月12日 · NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to gather data that could revolutionize air travel, paving the way for a new generation of commercial aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound.

2024年1月12日 · The centerpiece of NASA's Quesst mission to enable a future that includes commercial supersonic air travel over land, the X-59 quiet supersonic technology aircraft made its public debut on Jan. 12, 2024. This special report has all the details and background.

2023年10月12日 · NASA’s Quesst mission has adjusted the scheduled first flight of its X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft to 2024. A one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft, the X-59 has required complex engineering from NASA researchers working with prime …

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.”

6 天之前 · The Quesst mission has two goals. 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.

6 天之前 · 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.

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 design and certification analysis of supersonic aircraft.

2024年1月14日 · Watch the rollout of NASA’s newly painted X-59 Quesst supersonic aircraft live from Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. 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.

What is the X-59? NASA's X-59 will fly faster than the speed of sound...quietly. The X-59 will feature innovative technology to reduce loud sonic booms to a quiet thump.