NASA’s X-59 supersonic demonstrator returned to the skies on Friday morning for a nine-minute flight that was cut short after a warning light illuminated. However, NASA officials said they were still ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft, pictured on Dec. 12, sits on the apron outside Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA is getting ready to go supersonic. The U.S. space agency's experimental X-59 jet designed to eventually travel faster than ...

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, ...

NASA is considering using the popular benchmarking tool CapFrameX to measure the frame rate of its new cockpit simulator systems. These hand-built systems are designed to emulate the latest supersonic ...

Earlier this month, NASA unveiled the X-59 aircraft, its experimental supersonic jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound — with a "sonic boom" no louder than the bounce of a basketball.

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 ...