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The Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst ("Quiet SuperSonic Technology"), sometimes styled QueSST, is an American experimental supersonic aircraft under development by Skunk Works for NASA's Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator project. [2] Preliminary design started in February 2016, with the X-59 planned to begin flight testing in 2021.
The new craft was designed and built by prime contractor Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, under a $247.5 million NASA contract. With factory rollout now complete, the X-59 will ...
NASA and Lockheed Martin’s Quesst project aims to show sonic boom can be dissipated to manageable levels. They plan to fly their X-59 supersonic aircraft over US cities and gauge responses from ...
According to Less and Larson, the design of the X-59 is aimed at reducing the ear-splitting sonic boom to a “sonic thump” in an effort to reverse the law against commercial supersonic flights ...
The Lockheed Martin Skunk Works began developing the QSST in May 2001 under a $25-million contract from SAI. Designed to cruise at an altitude of 60,000 feet (18,288 meters) at speeds of Mach 1.6 to 1.8 (approximately 1,218 to 1,370 statute miles per hour, or 1,920 to 2,204 kilometers per hour) with a range of 4,600 statute miles (approx. 7,402 km), the two-engine gull-wing aircraft was ...
Lockheed Martin X-55 – Advanced composites technology demonstrator; Lockheed Martin X-56 – Flutter suppression and gust load testing unmanned testbed; NASA X-57 Maxwell - Electric-powered light aircraft; Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST - Low-boom supersonic aircraft; Generation Orbit X-60 - Air-launched single stage suborbital rocket vehicle
X-59 Quesst: Lockheed Martin NASA 2024 Prototype quiet supersonic transport aircraft [72] X-60: Generation Orbit Launch Services: USAF Air-launched rocket for hypersonic flight research [73] X-61 Gremlins: Dynetics: DARPA 2020 Air-launched and air-recoverable reconnaissance unmanned air vehicle (UAV) [74] [75] X-62 VISTA: Lockheed Martin ...
Lockheed Martin X-56 (MUTT) Fixed Wing, UAV Research Platform, X-Planes, Multi-Utility Technology Testbed Retired (1) 2012 Armstrong Flight Research Center: Active flutter suppression and gust load alleviation technology for potential use in future high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) reconnaissance aircraft. [40] Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST