Why the X-59 QueSST will be the 1st supersonic aircraft to fly without a sonic boom

The X-59 QueSST aims to be the first supersonic aircraft to reduce the "boom" to a "thumb" and overcome one of the great ...

Scientists find unlikely new way to track space junk: sonic booms in the atmosphere

Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their ...
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Earthquake Sensors Detect Sonic Booms From Incoming Space Junk

Scientists have just found a new way to track the uncontrolled reentry of falling space junk. As they punch into the ...

Sonic booms can protect Earth from dangerous space junk

As global numbers of space launches relentlessly skyrocket, so, too, does the amount of dangerous space debris that reenters the atmosphere and falls back to Earth, raising the odds that, sooner or ...

Study shows how earthquake monitors can track space junk through sonic booms

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can ...
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Earthquake Sensors Have Found A Second Job: Space Junk Detectors

In A Nutshell Thousands of existing seismic stations worldwide can now help locate falling satellites before hazardous ...

Sonic Booms and Seismic Waves Can Reveal Where Space Junk Crash-Lands

The sensors used to listen for earthquakes could help protect people from the hazards created by falling spacecraft.
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Supersonic Flight Without The Boom: NASA's X-59 Experimental Aircraft Takes Flight For First Time

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NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Plane Just Made Its First Flight

The X-59 is designed to transform the sonic boom associated with supersonic flight into a “sonic thump”—making it feasible to fly over populated areas. NASA’s new X-59 experimental jet flew for the ...
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Sonic boom rattles Southern California from SpaceX rocket launch

Some Southern California residents have reported feeling the shake and hearing a sonic boom as a SpaceX launch took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday morning. A Falcon 9 rocket launched ...