2025年3月3日 · NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft on Jan. 12, 2024, at a ceremony in California. Read about the event, watch the video, and learn more about the origins and assembly of the X-59 in this special feature report.

Unlock the future of supersonic travel with the X-59, a revolutionary plane designed to help NASA reduce sonic booms. Learn more from Lockheed Martin.

2020年7月23日 · English: The X-59 designation has been added to the graphic for the Low-Boom Flight Demonstration mission, which depicts the two key aspects of the effort – the X-plane and the community overflight campaigns it will later fly.

2024年1月9日 · Leadership from NASA and prime contractor Lockheed Martin will officially unveil the fully completed and freshly painted X-59 to the world during a rollout ceremony Friday, Jan. 12 at 4 p.m., EST. NASA TV will broadcast the event live from Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, where the aircraft was assembled.

The aircraft is a part of the Low-Boom Flight Demonstration mission, which has two goals: 1) design and build NASA's X-59 QueSST research aircraft with technology that reduces the loudness of a sonic boom to of a gentle thump to people on the ground; and 2) fly the X-59 over select U.S. communities to gather data on human responses to the sound ...

2024年1月16日 · From the first wing spars hinting at its shape through to the finished, fully painted aircraft, these images offer snapshots of how the X-59 with its quiet supersonic technology came together at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works facility in California.

Watch the rollout of NASA's newly painted X-59 Quesst supersonic aircraft live from Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California....more. Quesst is NASA's mission to demonstrate...

2024年1月24日 · The logo of Lockheed Martin on the side of its X-59 experimental supersonic jet. ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images. The space agency developed the X-59 with aerospace company Lockheed Martin in a...

What Makes a Sonic Boom? The X-59’s design shape prevent shockwaves from coming together, reducing the loud sonic boom to a barely audible thump. Within a few thousand feet, the shocks have completely merged into an “N wave” and the signature retains that …

2024年1月12日 · Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® (NYSE: LMT) rolled out the X-59, a unique experimental aircraft designed to quiet the sonic boom, at a ceremony in Palmdale, California. The ceremony marked a...