NASA's recent awards are a strategic step towards advancing hypersonic technologies. The agency has selected multiple contractors to focus on various aspects of hypersonic flight testing. These ...

The set of problems that have never had a “just run it in the tunnel” has never had a hypersonics set. What X-43A has brought ...

From experimental rocket planes to Cold War spy jets, the fastest aircraft in history pushed far beyond what engineers once ...

What role will F-15 jets play in the future of supersonic flight?

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million ...

SpaceWorks Enterprises and Stratolaunch will utilize their respective X-60 and Talon-A platforms for the program.

Quesst is the result of a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and NASA to build a supersonic aircraft that can fly over ...

Following its first flight last October, NASA’s X-59 supersonic demonstrator now sits partially disassembled at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in the California desert. There, workers ...

Two F-15Ds of the Oregon Air National Guard have been transferred to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, where they will join the ones already operated by the agency. NASA has announced on Jan.

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At the end of October 2025, American space agency NASA finally flew, for the first time, its brand-new X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft. It was a rather short, unspectacular flight, but it ...