{"id":474512,"date":"2026-05-30T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474512\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:51:27","slug":"going-low-and-slow-in-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474512\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Low and Slow in Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above NASA\u2019s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on April 28, 2026, during testing focused on lower-speed and altitude flight conditions in support of NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/quesst\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/quesst\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quesst<\/a> mission.<\/p>\n<p>The X-59 has completed initial test flights at high altitudes and near-supersonic speeds, opening the door for additional flights focused on its full operating range. These more recent, lower-altitude flights at lesser speeds are helping to confirm the X-plane\u2019s performance across a wide range of conditions, including flying with the landing gear both retracted and extended.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/quesst\/2026\/05\/14\/nasas-x-59-team-testing-aircraft-performance-at-all-speeds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about this series of test flights.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/Jim Ross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above NASA\u2019s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,16241,82,247],"class_list":["post-474512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-quesst-x-59","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474512","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=474512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}