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NASA pushes X-59 into low-altitude flight tests before key trials

NASA has moved its experimental X-59 into a new round of low-altitude flight tests, shifting the spotlight from headline-grabbing speed to the unglamorous work of calibration, vibration checks, and data collection. The aircraft, built for NASA’s Quesst program, has already completed its first high-altitude and near-supersonic flights; now engineers are probing how it behaves lower […]