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Tests of the small scale model were conducted inside a 8ft by 6ft 'supersonic wind tunnel' (pictured) by engineers at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
The year 2022 will be pivotal for NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft (QueSST), writes Matt Kamlet of NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center.
Lockheed Martin has temporarily rehomed the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft it is building for NASA, the space agency has announced. The supersonic
At the end of this year, when NASA plans to conduct the first test flight of the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) prototype aircraft, the project will be just four years old. That means it only took that much for the American space agency and its commercial partners to get from idea to real-life machine, and that gives us hope we’ll be seeing a return of civilian supersonic flight sooner than expected.
There’s a good chance 2021 will go down in history as the year that forever changed the way we do space exploration. Curiously enough though, it’s not the established space agencies that are behind that, but private space companies.