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Update: NASA’s X-59 Super Sonic Transport (SST)
The Super Sonic Transport (SST) concept has been reborn as NASA’s X-59, which is designed to reduce window rattling sonic booms to a modest, uneventful “thump” as it flies overhead. NASA notes that this developing technology could herald the resumption of supersonic civilian air travel. It is part of NASA’s Quesst mission. Although NASA and a number of sources have anticipated the first X-59 flight taking place in 2023, that may or may not be...
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