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NASA Makes History By Breaking The Sound Barrier In Near Total Silence

On a cool October morning in 2025, a sleek jet streaked across the sky above California’s Mojave Desert. This was NASA and ...

NASA's X-59 Supersonic Jet Broke The Sound Barrier On Its First Test Flight

A collaboration between NASA and Lockheed Martin has produced an experimental jet capable of flying beyond the speed of sound ...
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What causes sonic booms? How weather conditions affect the sound

This is what a split in the polar vortex looks like! Highlighted by the red boxes, you can see two distinct circulation centers, versus strictly one. This allows for cold air to flood southward into ...
Fox 5 San Diego

Sonic boom heard over Washington is a rare sound with a rich history

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — People living in and ...
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Sonic boom heard over Washington is a rare sound with a rich history

People living in and around the nation’s capital experienced a rare, if startling, sound: a sonic boom. The boom was heard Sunday after the U.S. military dispatched six fighter jets to intercept an ...