NASA’s X-59 has reached 924 mph and 55,000 feet, bringing the agency closer to proving that future supersonic passenger flights can avoid thunderous sonic booms.

Lockheed Martin's experimental supersonic plane has officially entered production, the defense giant announced Friday. Earlier this year, NASA awarded Lockheed a contract worth nearly $250 million to ...

Until Nasa and Lockheed Martin claimed their experimental X-59 may lead to a son of Concorde, the notion of commercial ...

NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) experimental supersonic aircraft took to the skies for the first time on October 28, 2025 from Lockheed Martin's famously secret Skunk Works at the US ...

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works is catching up with Boom Supersonic by flying its X-59 experimental quiet supersonic aircraft for the first time. Boom has not only flown its test aircraft, but achieved ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin's X-59 experimental supersonic aircraft is nearing its maiden flight after completing low-speed taxi tests, with medium- and high-speed taxi tests scheduled next. The X-59 is ...

It was back in 2016 when American space agency NASA kicked off a program called the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) and now, nine years later, we have the first tangible results of this effort: ...

Generally speaking, when an aircraft goes supersonic, everybody around it knows it, as the sonic boom it generates when breaking through the sound barrier makes no secret of what is going on. Could ...