Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Commercial Supersonic Technology

Langley Research Center

Low Boom Flight Demonstrator

Quesst (X-59)

Supersonic Flight

NASA’s X-59 Completes ‘Cruise Control’ Engine Speed Hold Test

The team behind NASA’s X-59 completed another critical ground test in March, ensuring the quiet supersonic aircraft will be able to maintain a specific speed during operation. The test, known as engine speed hold, is the latest marker of progress as the X-59 nears first flight this year. “Engine speed hold is essentially the aircraft’s […]

Posted March 26, 2025

Ames Research Center

General

Space Technology Mission Directorate

How NASA’s “Autonomy Choreography” Will Impact Advanced Technologies

Imagine your car is in conversation with other traffic and road signals as you travel. Those conversations help your car anticipate actions you can’t see: the sudden slowing of a truck as it begins to turn ahead of you, or an obscured traffic signal turning red. Meanwhile, this system has plotted a course that will […]

Posted March 20, 2025

Ames Research Center

Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations

Aeronautics

Flight Innovation

NASA Invites Media to View Wildland Fire Technology Flight Test

NASA will conduct a live flight test of aircraft performing simulated wildland fire response operations using a newly developed airspace management system at 9 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, March 25, in Salinas, California.

Posted March 18, 2025

Aeronautics

Ames Research Center

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Glenn Research Center

Langley Research Center

Finalists Selected in NASA Aeronautics Agriculture-Themed Competition

Eight finalist teams participating in the 2025 NASA Gateways to Blue Skies Competition have been selected to present to a panel of judges their design concepts for aviation solutions that can help the agriculture industry. Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, this year’s competition asked teams of university students to re

Posted March 14, 2025

Glenn Research Center

Aeronautics

Green Aviation Tech

NASA History

NASA’s Chevron Technology Quiets the Skies

Shortly after dawn on March 27, 2001, NASA pilot Bill Rieke took off from an airfield just outside of Phoenix in NASA’s blue-and-white Learjet 25 and flew low over a series of microphones for the first flight test of a groundbreaking NASA technology. On one of the plane’s engines was an experimental jagged-edged nozzle that […]

Posted March 11, 2025

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Aeronautics

Langley Research Center

Low Boom Flight Demonstrator

Quesst (X-59)

Quesst: The Vehicle

Supersonic Flight

NASA’s X-59 Completes Electromagnetic Testing

NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 research aircraft has cleared electromagnetic testing, confirming its systems will work together safely, without interference across a range of scenarios. “Reaching this phase shows that the aircraft integration is advancing,” said Yohan Lin, NASA’s X-59 avionics lead.

Posted February 26, 2025

Aeronautics

Flight Innovation

University Student Research Challenge

NASA University Research Program Makes First Award to a Community College Project

Great ideas, and the talent and passion that bring them to life, can be found anywhere. In that spirit, NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC) in 2024 selected its first group of community college students to contribute original research to the agency’s transformative vision for 21st century aviation.

Posted February 24, 2025

Aeronautics

Flight Innovation

University Student Research Challenge

NASA Selects New Round of Student-Led Aviation Research Awards

NASA has selected two new university student teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges meant to transform the skies above our communities. The research awards were made through NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC), which provides students with opportunities to contribute to NASA’s flight research goals.

Posted February 19, 2025

Aeronautics