{"id":594211,"date":"2024-01-16T14:31:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T19:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?post_type=image-article&p=594211"},"modified":"2024-01-16T14:31:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T19:31:31","slug":"nasa-x-59-unveiled-during-rollout-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"image-article","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/nasa-x-59-unveiled-during-rollout-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA X-59 Unveiled During Rollout Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/afrc2024-0004-001orig.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/afrc2024-0004-001orig.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Members of an audience lift their phones to snap a photo of the recently revealed X-59 aircraft. The plane's long, sharp nose appears to jut out towards the audience.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/afrc2024-0004-001orig.jpg 5482w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/afrc2024-0004-001orig.jpg?resize=300,193 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/afrc2024-0004-001orig.jpg?resize=768,493 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/afrc2024-0004-001orig.jpg?resize=1024,657 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/afrc2024-0004-001orig.jpg?resize=1536,986 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/afrc2024-0004-001orig.jpg?resize=2048,1315 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/afrc2024-0004-001orig.jpg?resize=400,257 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/afrc2024-0004-001orig.jpg?resize=600,385 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/afrc2024-0004-001orig.jpg?resize=900,578 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/afrc2024-0004-001orig.jpg?resize=1200,770 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/afrc2024-0004-001orig.jpg?resize=2000,1284 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">NASA and Lockheed Martin publicly unveil the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft at a ceremony in Lockheed Martin\u2019s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA\u2019s Quesst mission, which seeks to solve one of the major barriers to supersonic flight over land, currently banned in the United States, by making sonic booms quieter.<\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Steve Freeman<\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>A climactic curtain drop reveals the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/nasas-x-59-goes-from-green-to-red-white-and-blue\/\">newly painted red, white, and blue<\/a> X-59 aircraft during its <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.nasa.gov\/video\/rollout-of-the-x-59-quesst-supersonic-plane\/\" rel=\"noopener\">rollout ceremony<\/a> on Jan. 12, 2024, at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California – a major milestone before its first flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A long-standing aviation tradition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/aeronautics\/x-59-rollout-preview\/\">rollout ceremonies<\/a> celebrate years of technical achievements. In the case of the X-59, not only does it celebrate groundbreaking technical work, but it honors the brilliant minds behind the research, development, and construction that went into a one-of-a-kind supersonic research aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The X-59 is a research tool in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/quesst\/\">NASA’s Quesst mission<\/a> designed to prove quiet supersonic flight is possible. Through Quesst, NASA will fly the aircraft over select U.S. communities, working with them to collect data. NASA will provide that data to regulators so they may consider writing new sound-based rules that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers-and-facilities\/armstrong\/nasas-quesst-reassessing-a-50-year-supersonic-speed-limit\/\">amend the current ban<\/a> on commercial supersonic flight over land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next up, the X-59 team will conduct a series of integrated ground tests, including engine runs and taxi tests, to prepare for the aircraft’s first flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image Credit: NASA\/Steve Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Text Credit: Sasha Ellis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read this story in Spanish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">El avi\u00f3n X-59 de la NASA fue revelado durante una ceremonia<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Una ca\u00edda culminante del tel\u00f3n revela el avi\u00f3n X-59 reci\u00e9n pintado de rojo, blanco y azul durante su ceremonia de lanzamiento el 12 de enero de 2024 en Lockheed Martin Skunk Works en Palmdale, California, un logro importante antes de su primer vuelo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Las ceremonias de lanzamiento vienen de una larga tradici\u00f3n en la aviaci\u00f3n donde se celebran a\u00f1os de logros t\u00e9cnicos. En el caso del X-59, no s\u00f3lo se celebra el trabajo t\u00e9cnico innovador, sino que tambi\u00e9n honra a las mentes brillantes detr\u00e1s de la investigaci\u00f3n, el desarrollo y la construcci\u00f3n de un avi\u00f3n de investigaci\u00f3n supers\u00f3nico \u00fanico en su tipo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El X-59 es una herramienta de investigaci\u00f3n de la misi\u00f3n Questt de la NASA dise\u00f1ada para demostrar que es posible un vuelo supers\u00f3nico silencioso. A trav\u00e9s de Questt, la NASA volar\u00e1 el avi\u00f3n sobre comunidades seleccionadas de los Estados Unidos y trabajar\u00e1 con ellas para recopilar datos. La NASA proporcionar\u00e1 esos datos a los reguladores para que puedan redactar nuevas reglas de los vuelos supers\u00f3nicos comerciales sobre tierra considerando los niveles de ruido en lugar de la velocidad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A continuaci\u00f3n, el equipo del X-59 llevar\u00e1 a cabo una serie de pruebas en tierra integradas, incluidos funcionamientos del motor y pruebas de rodaje, para prepararse para el primer vuelo del avi\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Cr\u00e9dito de la foto: NASA\/Steve Freeman<br>Cr\u00e9dito de texto: Sasha Ellis, NASA<br>Traducido por: Jessica Arreola, NASA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A climactic curtain drop reveals the newly painted red, white, and blue X-59 aircraft during its rollout ceremony on Jan. 12, 2024, at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California – a major milestone before its first flight. A long-standing aviation tradition, rollout ceremonies celebrate years of technical achievements. 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