Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

NASA, alongside industry, will soon begin designing a new jet engine concept for the next generation of ultra-efficient airliners — officially graduating to the project’s next phase.

Posted May 18, 2024

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Flight Innovation

Transformational Tools Technologies

Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program

Aviary: A New NASA Software Platform for Aircraft Modelling

NASA has created a new digital modelling tool for aeronautical engineers to innovate new aircraft designs, building on decades of experience using highly advanced computer code for aviation. Using this tool, researchers can create simulations of conceptual aircraft featuring never-flown technology and receive detailed data about how it would work.

Posted May 17, 2024

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Ames Research Center

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Glenn Research Center

Integrated Aviation Systems Program

Langley Research Center

Low Boom Flight Demonstrator

Quesst (X-59)

Quesst: The Flights

Quesst: The Vehicle

Supersonic Flight

NASA’s X-59 Passes Milestone Toward Safe First Flight

NASA has taken the next step toward verifying the airworthiness for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft with the completion of a milestone review that will allow it to progress toward flight. A Flight Readiness Review board composed of independent experts from across NASA has completed a study of the X-59 project team’s approach to safety […]

Posted May 15, 2024

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Glenn Research Center

Green Aviation Tech

NASA Uses Small Engine to Enhance Sustainable Jet Research

Located inside a high-tech NASA laboratory in Cleveland is something you could almost miss at first glance: a small-scale, fully operational jet engine to test new technology that could make aviation more sustainable. The engine’s smaller size and modestly equipped test stand means researchers and engineers can try out newly designed engine compon

Posted April 29, 2024

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Advanced Air Mobility

Advanced Air Vehicles Program

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Ames Research Center

Drones & You

Flight Innovation

Glenn Research Center

Langley Research Center

Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology

NASA Noise Prediction Tool Supports Users in Air Taxi Industry

Several air taxi companies are using a NASA-developed computer software tool to predict aircraft noise and aerodynamic performance. This tool allows manufacturers working in fields related to NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility mission to see early in the aircraft development process how design elements like propellors or wings would perform.

Posted April 4, 2024

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Center Innovation Fund

Flight Innovation

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Armstrong Updates 1960s Concept to Study Giant Planets

NASA researchers are looking at the possibility of using a wingless, unpowered aircraft design from the 1960s to gather atmospheric data on other planets – doing the same work as small satellites but potentially better and more economically.

Posted March 13, 2024

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Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Artemis

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NASA to Highlight Artemis, US Space Leadership During Annual Address

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will discuss the agency’s goals for the benefit of humanity during the annual State of NASA address on Monday, March 11. The event will coincide with the release of the Biden-Harris Administration’s fiscal year 2025 budget proposal. The event will air live at 1 p.m. EDT on NASA+, NASA Television, the […]

Posted March 8, 2024

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Green Aviation Tech

Integrated Aviation Systems Program

Sustainable Flight Demonstrator

New Look at NASA, Boeing Sustainable Experimental Airliner

As NASA and Boeing enter the early stages of producing the X-66, the first X-plane specifically focused on helping the United States achieve net-zero aviation emissions by 2050, the team is already picturing what the aircraft will look like soaring above the clouds. A new rendering of the X-66 from Boeing demonstrates the aircraft’s signature […]

Posted March 7, 2024

Quesst (X-59)

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

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NASA Grants to Engage Students in Quiet Supersonic Community Overflight

NASA has issued new grants to five universities to help develop education plans for the community overflight phase of the agency’s Quesst mission, which aims to demonstrate the possibility of supersonic flight without the typical loud sonic booms.

Posted February 27, 2024

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Advanced Air Vehicles Program

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Aeronautics Technology

Commercial Supersonic Technology

Low Boom Flight Demonstrator

Quesst (X-59)

Quesst: The Flights

Supersonic Flight

NASA Instruments Will Listen for Supersonic X-59’s Quiet ‘Thump’

NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is unique – it’s designed to fly faster than the speed of sound, but without causing a loud sonic boom. To confirm the X-59’s ability to fly supersonic while only producing quiet sonic “thumps,” NASA needs to be able to record these sounds from the ground. The agency recently completed tests […]

Posted February 22, 2024