SpaceX has found a new parking spot off of the Bahamas for its droneships that catch boosters from launches from the Space ...

You might be wondering why this is news. Since Chuck Yeager’s first sonic boom in 1947, thousands of military aircraft have broken the sound barrier. Even some civilian aircraft have done it: the ...

Boom Supersonic announced that it could fly faster than the speed of sound without a sonic boom. Elon Musk backed the CEO's calls for regulatory changes to allow supersonic flights over land.

Supersonic flight has been banned over land by federal aviation law because of the disruptive nature of the unleashed sonic boom on the environment below. Boom’s XB-1 prototype is the first ...

Flight experts say in ideal conditions, a sonic boom can be heard up to 30 miles away from the source. It’s not clear where the sonic boom created by the X-1 will be heard, but the test flight ...

Boomless Cruise is based on physics known as the Mach cutoff, in which a sonic boom refracts in the atmosphere and never ...

"During its historic first supersonic flight on January 28, 2025, Boom’s demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, broke the sound barrier three times without generating a sonic boom that reached the ground ...