{"id":151259,"date":"2025-11-21T03:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/151259\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T03:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:20:10","slug":"nasas-quesst-mission-marks-x-59s-historic-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/151259\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Quesst Mission Marks X-59\u2019s Historic First Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its historic first flight on Oct. 28 at 11:14 a.m. EDT from Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The one-of-a-kind aircraft flew for 67 minutes before landing and taxiing to NASA\u2019s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.<\/p>\n<p>NASA test pilot Nils Larson flew the X-59 up to an altitude of about 12,000 feet and an approximate top speed of 230 mph, precisely as planned. The plane\u2019s landing gear remained down during the entire flight, a common practice for experimental aircraft flying for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the X-59\u2019s first flight is in the books, the team is focused on preparing for a series of test flights where the aircraft will operate at higher altitudes and supersonic speeds.\u00a0This test flight phase of NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/quesst\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quesst mission<\/a> will ensure the X-59 meets performance and safety expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Through the Quesst mission, NASA aims to usher in a new age of quiet supersonic flight, achieved through the unique design and technology of the X-59 in future supersonic transport aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its historic first flight on Oct. 28 at 11:14&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[15845,15847,15270,16238,61,85510,60,16239,16240,16241,82,247,16242],"class_list":{"0":"post-151259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-aeronautics","9":"tag-ames-research-center","10":"tag-armstrong-flight-research-center","11":"tag-glenn-research-center","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-integrated-aviation-systems-program","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-langley-research-center","16":"tag-low-boom-flight-demonstrator","17":"tag-quesst-x-59","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-space","20":"tag-supersonic-flight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}