NASA Readies The X-59 For Its First Supersonic Flight, SpaceX's Starship Grounded And More Science Stories
This week’s science news.
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This week, NASA shared more information about its planned moon base missions, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded on the launchpad and the James Webb Space Telescope spotted a supermassive black hole that researchers say "may have formed within the first second after the big bang." But first, we have updates on NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research plane and SpaceX's Starship following last week's test flight. Catch up here on this week's science news.
Key test flights approach for NASA's quiet supersonic plane
Over the last decade, NASA has been developing an aircraft that could one day reach supersonic speeds — or travel faster than the speed of sound — without producing the thunderous sonic booms typically associated with this feat. The plane, called the X-59, took its first ever flight back in Octoberand has conducted several more in the months since. Now,...
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