Image: Seeing an X-plane's sonic boom
When NASA's next X-plane takes to the skies, it will produce some pretty cool images.
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Dec 19, 2017
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News tagged with supersonic flight
Book the next rocket to New York? What it'll take to realize Elon Musk's bizarre travel plan
SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk envisions a time in the near future when long-distance travelers on Earth can hop on a rocket to go across the globe in less than an hour.
Space Exploration
Oct 6, 2017
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NASA completes milestone toward quieter supersonic X-plane
NASA has achieved a significant milestone in its effort to make supersonic passenger jet travel over land a real possibility by completing the preliminary design review (PDR) of its Quiet Supersonic Transport or QueSST aircraft ...
Space Exploration
Jun 27, 2017
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NASA wind tunnel tests X-plane design for a quieter supersonic jet
Supersonic passenger airplanes are another step closer to reality as NASA and Lockheed Martin begin the first high-speed wind tunnel tests for the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) X-plane preliminary design at NASA's ...
Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2017
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The real future of supersonic flight doesn't depend on Richard Branson – but it might depend on Trump
Sir Richard Branson wants to bring back supersonic travel. Thirteen years since Concorde ended operations, the Virgin tycoon has revealed the prototype design for a new generation of supersonic business jets developed by ...
Engineering
Nov 18, 2016
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NASA moves to begin historic new era of X-plane research
History is about to repeat itself. There have been periods of time during the past seven decades – some busier than others – when the nation's best minds in aviation designed, built and flew a series of experimental airplanes ...
Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2016
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NASA 'flying saucer' launch set for Friday
Bad weather led the US space agency to postpone until Friday the first test of the largest parachute ever deployed, with the view of one day using it to land on Mars.
Space Exploration
Jun 4, 2015
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NASA to test supersonic parachute in flying saucer launch (Update)
The US space agency plans to try out the largest parachute ever deployed Wednesday during a flying saucer launch that will test new technologies for landing on Mars.
Space Exploration
Jun 2, 2015
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SLS model 'flies' through Langley wind tunnel testing
(Phys.org)—At NASA facilities around the country, engineers are developing America's first exploration-class rocket since the Saturn V launched astronauts to the moon. The Space Launch System (SLS) will provide an entirely ...
Space Exploration
Nov 29, 2012
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Baumgartner feat boosts hopes for imperilled astronauts
Daredevil Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking jump raises hopes that pilots and even astronauts can be saved from accidents in the stratosphere, experts said on Monday.
Space Exploration
Oct 15, 2012
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