Six flights in a single week is a pace no earlier stretch of the X-59’s test program had reached, and NASA says so in its own words. Over September 22 to 25, the agency’s quiet-supersonic research jet ...

NASA's X-59 QueSST flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, expanding into the supersonic portion of its flight envelope. NASA's experimental X-59 QueSST (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) ...

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...

NASA's X-59 supersonic jet is designed to surpass the speed of sound without producing sonic booms. Here's the latest on testing.

The X-59 went supersonic for the first time on June 5, reaching a top speed of approximately Mach 1.1 (713 mph) and an altitude of 43,400 feet on an 81-minute mission from Edwards Air Force Base in ...

NASA’s experimental supersonic jet recently completed its 25th flight, racking up some serious miles in the air before its noise levels are put to the test. The X-59 took off from NASA’s Armstrong ...

NASA's X-59 jet is on the verge of finally breaking the sound barrier. The X-59 is a supersonic aircraft designed with a radical elongated geometry that aims to reduce the volume of the sonic booms it ...

NASA completed subsonic testing of the X-59 and is preparing software updates and acoustic evaluations ahead of the aircraft's first supersonic flights. The X-59 completed subsonic tests, with data ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s experimental X-59 plane in flight on June 5, 2026, the first time the aircraft has reached supersonic speeds. NASA's ...

NASA's X-59 supersonic jet recently completed its 25th test flight. The goal of NASA's Quesst mission is to gather data that could lead to commercial supersonic flights over land. Future tests will ...

NASA has already proved that its needle-nosed X-59 can move seriously fast in recent test flights. Now, the next step is to find out whether it can break the sound barrier without announcing its ...

NASA's supersonic jet recently hit a testing milestone as the agency looks to set the stage for commercial air travel that whizzes passengers to their destinations faster than the speed of sound. In ...