![]() ![]() ![]() NASA aims to have enough data to hand over to US regulators in 2027. ![]() I made a trip to Mountain View (on the San Francisco Peninsula) one rainy. Ground tests and a first test flight are planned for later in the year. director of the NASAAmes Research Center in Mountain View, California. In July, Lockheed Martin completed the build of NASA’s X-59 test aircraft, which is designed to turn sonic booms into mere thumps, in the hope of making overland supersonic flight a possibility. The next phase will also consider “safety, efficiency, economic and societal considerations,” said Mary Jo Long-Davis, manager of NASA’s Hypersonic Technology Project, adding that “It’s important to innovate responsibly.” In the same way, she added, the new studies will “refresh those looks at technology roadmaps and identify additional research needs for a broader high-speed range.” Similar studies to the ones done now, which were carried out a decade ago, shaped the development of the X-59 aircraft, according to Lori Ozoroski, project manager for NASA’s Commercial Supersonic Technology Project. NASA's X-59 airplane is now built, and ready for testing. A jet traveling at Mach 4 could potentially make a transatlantic crossing in as little as 90 minutes. Concorde’s maximum speed was Mach 2.04, or 1,354 miles per hour. The agency hopes that the new aircraft could eventually prompt modification of these rules, clearing the way for aircraft flying between Mach 2 and Mach 4 (1,535 - 3,045 miles per hour). However, NASA is developing “quiet” supersonic aircraft, called X-59, as part of its Quesst mission. The study by NASA’s Glenn Research Center suggested that there are already “potential passenger markets… in about 50 established routes.” These routes were confined to transoceanic ones, including over the North Atlantic and the Pacific, because nations including the US ban overland supersonic flight. The space agency has confirmed in a blog post about its “high-speed strategy” that it has recently studied whether commercial flights at up to Mach 4 – over 3,000 miles per hour – could take off in the future. The record currently stands at just under five hours from New York to London, pushed on by a favorable jetstream.īut now, the thought of supersonic travel has been mooted again – by none other than NASA, which reckons that New York-London flight could take as little as 90 minutes in the future. Flights between London and New York take around eight hours, or closer to seven in the other direction. Since the 2003 end of Concorde, of course, flitting quickly across the Atlantic has been a thing of the past. It does not store any personal data.Oh for the glory days of travel, when the seats were bigger, the food was better, and you could jet across the Atlantic in less than three hours. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Perhaps I have been too quick to that conclusion–seeing the work on air-traffic modeling and thinking of their capability to do BIG, perhaps they can help. NASA has done everything they ever put their minds to, technology and mission wise.Īll that said, I have criticized NASA's involvment, by way of the FAA, in “studying” the issues around allow UAVs in the commercial airspace. But it seems that in many ways NASA has fallen out of favor–the assumption was they could NOT develop cheap missions–the real issue was they were NOT tasked with that. There is a lot of this going on for sure. In addition, there is a challenge to apply their knowledge, facilites, and capabilities to other large scale problems besides space flight. One of the challenges is to transition to private enterprise performing space missions, but still retaining R&D. They are still deeply involved in space research, planetary missions, and asteriod mining. I'm not really up on what the future is for NASA. I've also seen photos of vacuum chambers big enough for an Apollo upper stage and command module. I think NASA is one of the few orgainizations anywhere, in the history of humans, to have thought so BIG, and built test facilities to check their thinking. ![]()
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