NASA's X-59 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Friday (June 5), reaching a top speed of about Mach 1.1.
French quantum computing startup C12 is advancing a nanoassembly process for transferring individual carbon ...
Discover NASA's X-59, a groundbreaking jet designed to quietly break the sound barrier and challenge a 50-year-old supersonic ...
NASA's $247-million jet dubbed the 'Son of Concorde' is about to take to the skies for its first supersonic test flight.
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 ...
A supersonic jet plane designed to make very little noise took flight for the first time this week, cruising over the southern California desert just after sunrise in what could be the first step ...
What Happened: You know that earsplitting, window-rattling BOOM that planes make when they break the sound barrier? The one that got them banned from flying over land? Well, it might be a thing of the ...
A radical aircraft design is about to attempt something aviation has struggled with for decades, and it could change how we ...
It’s been over a decade since engineers officially got to work on the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST). Designed in collaboration with NASA, Lockheed Martin’s state-o ...
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 ...