{"id":14635,"date":"2025-07-23T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14635\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:01:09","slug":"nasas-x-59-makes-a-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14635\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s X-59 Makes a Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft completed its first\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/nasas-x-59-quiet-supersonic-aircraft-begins-taxi-tests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">low-speed taxi<\/a>\u202ftest\u202fat U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, on July 10, 2025. This marked the first time the one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft\u202fhas ever moved\u202funder its own power.\u202f<\/p>\n<p>During the\u202ftest, engineers and flight crews monitored the X-59 as it moved across the runway, working to validate critical systems like steering and braking.\u202fThe taxiing represents the start of the X-59\u2019s final series of ground tests before first flight.\u202f<\/p>\n<p>The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA\u2019s\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/quesst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Quesst mission<\/a>, which aims to demonstrate quiet supersonic flight by reducing the loud sonic boom to a quieter \u201cthump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: NASA\/Carla Thomas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft completed its first\u202flow-speed taxi\u202ftest\u202fat U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-14635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}