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.

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.

Preliminary design started in February 2016, with the X-59 planned to begin flight testing in 2021. After delays, as of January 2025, it is planned to be delivered to NASA for flight testing in 2025.

2018年6月27日 · Now under construction by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company at its famed Skunk Works plant in Palmdale, Calif., the X-59 QueSST is designed so that when flying supersonic, people on the ground will hear nothing more than a sonic thump – if anything at all.

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 ...

X-59 QueSST Low Boom Flight Demonstration commemoritve medallion. To learn more about the QueSST program, click here. https://www.nasa.gov/specials/X59/

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 …

Who are the people behind the mission? Many people helped design and build X-59. Here's just a few of them. "Over the thirty-six years I've worked at NASA. I've watched this methodology evolve from something rigidly tied to mathematics into a project that will be built, and will fly, and is something we've never done before."

2023年11月16日 · NASA’s X-59 supersonic aircraft will receive a distinctive red, white, and blue paint scheme at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works.