NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Research Aircraft Unveiled
NASA and Lockheed Martin publicly unveil the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft at a ceremony in Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission, which seeks to solve one of the major barriers to supersonic flight over land, currently banned in the United States, by making sonic booms quieter.
- Date
- 2024-01-12
- Photographer / author
- NASA/Steve Freeman
- Collection
- AFRC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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