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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Image: X-51A Makes Longest Scramjet Flight
(PhysOrg.com) -- The X-51A successfully made the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight to date off the southern California coast on May 26. It was powered by a SJX61-2 that was first validated in ...
Space Exploration
Jun 3, 2010
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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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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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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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New NASA X-plane construction begins now
NASA's aeronautical innovators are ready to take things supersonic, but with a quiet twist.
Space Exploration
Apr 4, 2018
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Lancets Flights Probe Supersonic Shockwaves
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is concluding a series of flight tests to measure shock waves generated by an F-15 jet in an effort to validate computer models that could be used in designing quieter supersonic aircraft.
Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2009
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NASA to test parachute system for landing spacecraft on Mars
A parachute system that's designed to land spacecraft on Mars will be tested this week off Virginia's coast.
Space Exploration
Sep 4, 2018
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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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Virgin Galactic conducts first powered flight of new spaceship (Update)
Virgin Galactic's new spaceship climbed at supersonic speed over California's Mojave Desert on Thursday in the company's first powered flight since the fatal crash of its original rocketship in 2014.
Space Exploration
Apr 5, 2018
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