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NASA’s new X-59 supersonic plane gets engine for quiet sonic booms

NASA’s supersonic plane is now one step closer to its flight demonstration over U.S. communities.

The X-59 supersonic plane of NASA’s Quesst mission just got its 13-foot-long engine, according to a recent announcement from the space agency. This crucial piece of hardware will deliver 22,000 pounds of thrust and fire up the X-59 to fly faster than the speed of sound. NASA hopes the data collected during flight, sometime around 2025, will prove that its new supersonic technology will produce just a “thump” as heard by people on the ground, and not a sonic boom. This will then be brought to regulators to change rules about how fast a plane can be allowed to fly over land, and perhaps get used on future applications of commercial aircraft to reduce travel times, according to NASA. 

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