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Two maintainers in white protective suits, air tanks, masks, rubber gloves, and boots check NASA’s X-59 hydrazine system during a hydrazine safety check at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The sky is slightly overcast, with some sunlight rays beginning to peek out from behind the clouds. The aircraft has a panel open, a ladder positioned on the right side of its fuselage, and air ducts extending from the aircraft into a service cart.

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NASA’s X-59 Moves Toward First Flight at Speed of Safety

September 13, 2025

As NASA’s one-of-a-kind X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft approaches first flight, its team is mapping every step from…

Two men stand in an office looking at four smaller computer screens and one larger computer screen. There is a tan desk in the foreground housing two computer monitors and a small grey drone. In the background stands a man in a white polo shirt facing two other computer monitors on a desk. Behind this set up is a large TV monitor with a man standing with his arm reached out in front. The man is wearing a black polo shorts and tan shorts as well as white tennis shoes. The screen shows a map and different pieces of software working in unison.

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NASA Tests Tools to Assess Drone Safety Over Cities

August 23, 2025

A future with advanced air mobility aircraft populating the skies will require the U.S. to implement enhanced preflight…

NASA test pilot Nils Larson walks around an F-15B aircraft at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. He wears a green G-suit over his tan flight suit and looks up at the nose of the aircraft. The F-15 canopy is open, and support crew stand near the aircraft as the pilots walks around. The aircraft sits higher than the pilot, allowing a partial view of the area on the opposite side.

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NASA Rehearses How to Measure X-59’s Noise Levels

July 26, 2025

In a stretch of California’s Mojave Desert, NASA conducted a full-scale “dress rehearsal” to prepare how it will…