{"id":275190,"date":"2025-11-21T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275190\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:58:07","slug":"nasas-quesst-mission-marks-x-59s-historic-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275190\/","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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers-and-facilities\/armstrong\/nasas-x-59-completes-first-flight-prepares-for-more-flight-testing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">historic first flight<\/a> on Oct. 28, 2025, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/david-nils-larson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nils Larson<\/a> 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<p>Image Credit: NASA\/Lori Losey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its historic first flight on Oct. 28, 2025, at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[12669,15523,15526,15527,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-275190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-aeronautics","9":"tag-armstrong-flight-research-center","10":"tag-low-boom-flight-demonstrator","11":"tag-quesst-x-59","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}