{"id":2197,"date":"2024-05-18T20:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T15:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2024-05-18T20:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T15:05:03","slug":"nasas-supersonic-x-59-aircraft-passes-milestone-test-for-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/nasas-supersonic-x-59-aircraft-passes-milestone-test-for-first-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s supersonic X-59 aircraft passes milestone test for first flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration&#8217;s (NASA) supersonic X-59 aircraft has completed a milestone review that will allow it to progress toward first flight, NASA said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A Flight Readiness Review board composed of independent experts from across NASA has completed a study of the X-59 project team&#8217;s approach to safety for the public and staff during ground and flight testing.<\/p>\n<p>The review board looked in detail at the project team&#8217;s analysis of potential hazards, focusing on safety and risk identification.<\/p>\n<p>Flight Readiness Review is the first step in the flight approval process, according to NASA.<\/p>\n<p>NASA and prime contractor Lockheed Martin are developing the X-59 to reduce the sound of a sonic boom to a quieter &#8220;thump.&#8221; The aircraft is at the center of NASA&#8217;s Quesst mission, which will use it to gather data that could revolutionize air travel, potentially paving the way for a new generation of commercial aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration&#8217;s (NASA) supersonic X-59 aircraft has completed a milestone review that will allow it to progress toward first flight, NASA said on Friday. A Flight Readiness Review board composed of independent experts from across NASA has completed a study of the X-59 project team&#8217;s approach to safety for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}