{"id":20528,"date":"2021-05-09T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T11:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=20528"},"modified":"2021-05-09T21:38:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T15:53:14","slug":"nasa-selects-contractor-for-quiet-supersonic-flight-community-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/nasa-selects-contractor-for-quiet-supersonic-flight-community-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Selects Contractor for Quiet Supersonic Flight Community Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NASA has selected a contract to Harris Miller Miller & Hanson Inc. of Burlington, Massachusetts, to support a national campaign of community overflight tests using the agency\u2019s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology research aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-quantity contract has a maximum potential value of approximately $29 million with an eight-year period of performance.NASA is designing and building the X-59 research aircraft \u2013 a piloted, single-seat supersonic X-plane \u2013 with technology that reduces the loudness of a sonic boom to that of a gentle thump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NASA’s has said aeronautical innovators are leading a team across government and industry to collect data that could allow supersonic flight over land, dramatically reducing travel time within the United States or to anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scope of the work under this contract includes supporting NASA in the planning, execution, and documentation of phase three of the agency\u2019s Low-Boom Flight Demonstration mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NASA currently is working with Lockheed Martin Skunk Works of Palmdale, California, to design, build and conduct initial flight testing of the X-59 research aircraft as part of phase one of the mission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team will work during phase two to prove the X-59 performs as designed and is safe to fly in the national airspace. During phase three, NASA will fly the X-59 aircraft over communities yet to be selected and ask residents to share their response to the sound the aircraft generates during supersonic flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to NASA, they will provide the results of the community survey and the X-59 acoustic data collected during the community overflight tests to U.S. and international regulators for use in considering new sound-based rules to enable supersonic flight over land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA has selected a contract to Harris Miller Miller & Hanson Inc. of Burlington, Massachusetts, to support a national campaign of community overflight tests using the agency\u2019s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology research aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic.jpg",985,739,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic-200x200.jpg",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic-533x400.jpg",533,400,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic-768x576.jpg",750,563,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic-675x506.jpg",675,506,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic.jpg",985,739,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic.jpg",985,739,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic.jpg",985,739,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic.jpg",760,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic.jpg",600,450,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic.jpg",600,450,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic-760x490.jpg",760,490,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic-550x360.jpg",550,360,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic-95x65.jpg",95,65,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic.jpg",640,480,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic.jpg",96,72,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/flying-supersonic.jpg",150,113,false]},"author_info":{"info":["RevoScience"]},"category_info":"News<\/a> Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}