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 ...
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, ...
There will soon come a time when NASA will prove that supersonic aircraft flight is possible over populated areas without disturbing people and perhaps even shattering windows. Such a reality will be ...
NASA's Quesst mission marked a major milestone with the start of tests on the engine that will power the quiet supersonic ...
Magni650 electric propulsion unit simulated flight at 30,000 feet on a testbed aircraft NASA’s ground-based Electric Aircraft Testbed simulated flight conditions at 30,000 feet with a maximum ...
Five years ago, in 2021, American space agency NASA announced it is working on yet another project that doesn’t involve, well, space: the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core (HyTEC). Since then, NASA’s ...
To an untrained eye, the aircraft engine sitting outside of a Cincinnati facility in December might have looked like standard hardware. But NASA and GE Aerospace researchers watching the unit fire up ...