The aircraft will soon be ready to fly over American communities.
NASA’s The X-59 is designed to fly at supersonic speeds without generating a loud sonic boom; Instead, according to NASA, it will produce a “quiet sonic rumble.” However, for now, it is flying with another research vehicle does Generate a sound wave to obscure any noise during the test.
In a test flight Friday, the X-59 flew at Mach 1.4, or about 924 mph, and reached an altitude of 55,000 feet. For the previous flyby, on June 5, its intensity was Mach 1.1.
The space agency says this latest test was “an even more significant step forward” than the previous test, as it targeted key targets that it will repeat during its Quest missions. The Quest mission, still months away, will see the However, before that, the aircraft will go through an acoustic validation phase, in which the team will measure its supersonic acoustic signature to ensure that it is indeed breaking the sound barrier without generating a conventional sonic boom.
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