NASA and JAXA to Work Together on Testing X-59 Model

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In this image from 2017, a scale model of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology airplane is prepared for tests in a supersonic wind tunnel at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. A new, smaller X-59 model is to be tested here this summer and then sent to Japan for another series of wind-tunnel tests. The resulting data will then be compared.

Credits: NASA

In the world of aviation research, new knowledge and tools can come from working with friends on a big project.

That’s the idea with NASA’s experimental X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft, which is the centerpiece of NASA’s mission to gather information intended to help enable a new era of commercial faster-than-sound air travel over land.

The friends in this case are aeronautical innovators representing NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, also known as JAXA.