Testing Recording Equipment for X-59’s Future Supersonic Flights

Watch this video to learn more about how NASA completed a series of tests to reduce risks prior to Phase 2 of its Quesst mission, which will test the ability of the X-59 experimental aircraft to make sonic booms quieter. During Phase 2, NASA will spread 70 ground recording stations over a 30-mile test site to record the quiet sonic thumps of the X-59.

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00:00:00 [Music] Field Ops lead this is PI 836 is airborne copy 836 airborne We're turning in ops check 8.9 Ops check 8.9 Turning in One minute [Double Boom] Copy that PI are you ready for the report? Go ahead

00:02:14 Yeah we got solid double booms across the entire array