#x-59 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #x-59, aggregated by home.social.
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Weekly output: not-so-independent agencies, location privacy, Virginia’s data-center tax, Blue Origin’s return-to-flight plans, civil supersonic flight, astronomy in VR, Backblaze
The list below would be a lot of published work for a five-workday week, and yet I didn’t write any of those things or deal with edits to them on Friday. The Supreme Court bears much of the responsibility for this pace, the aerospace-industry news cycle did its own part, and then I had two pieces that I’d started weeks before finally get published on the one day that I gave this keyboard a decent rest.
But wait, there was more: I wrote an extra post for Patreon readers Tuesday about the business calculations I’m working through as I decide if going to Berlin for the IFA tech trade show can pencil out for me.
6/29/2026: Supreme Court Gives Trump the Green Light to Fire Heads of FTC, Other Agencies, PCMag
Since I’ve been following President Trump’s attempts to expel the Democratic minority on the Federal Trade Commission, commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, since first writing about this story last March, I felt obliged to cover the Court’s conclusion of this case.
6/30/2026: Supreme Court: Fourth Amendment Protects Your Phone’s Location History, PCMag
I felt just as obliged to cover the Court ruling that Google’s Location History tool incurs Fourth Amendment protections–and to note that the majority opinion describes this as if Google hadn’t since turned Location History into an on-device, end-to-end-encrypted feature that Google can no longer access if presented with a “geofence warrant.”
6/30/2026: The State With the Most Data Centers Will Now Tax Their Energy Use, PCMag
I had been meaning to write about how Virginia has begun to change its approach to the data centers that now sprawl across Loudoun and Prince William counties. But until the General Assembly reached a belated budget compromise in the closing days of June, I didn’t know what sort of change we’d get.
7/1/2026: Blue Origin: Here’s How We’ll Return New Glenn to Flight Faster Than Expected, PCMag
Blue Origin posted an update Tuesday about its plans to resume launches of its New Glenn rocket. But in addition to having my hands full Tuesday, I needed part of Wednesday to take notes from videos of recent discussions–a panel with Blue founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Dave Limp, another panel led by Ars Technica space reporter Eric Berger, and a NASA press conference featuring administrator Jared Isaacman–that yielded some insight into the company’s situation.
7/2/2026: FAA Moves to Allow Civil Supersonic Flights Over Land, If They’re Quiet Enough, PCMag
This was my longest story published this week, because it had to cover not only the Federal Aviation Administration’s opening of a rulemaking process to legalize commercial supersonic flights over land but also the current state of affairs at Boom Supersonic and NASA’s debut of flight tests of its “low-boom” X-59 aircraft. That was a lot of detail to pack in, and I missed one error in my copy until a few hours after the story posted–I had described Boom’s XB-1 testbed aircraft as a single-engine plane when I meant single-seat.
7/3/2026: Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR, Ars Technica
Earlier in June, I spent a fascinating 40 minutes with a computer strapped to my face in a windowless room in downtown D.C., enjoying a VR tour of some of the universe’s more interesting places. I thought that would be a good fit for a site that routinely covers both technology and astronomy, and that’s how I’ve now had two pieces run at Ars this year after going three years since my previous contribution to one of my daily tech-news reads.
7/3/2026: Backblaze: Backup May Be a ‘Declining’ Business, But We’re Not Backing Away
This post was originally going to start with my talking to an exec with this computer-backup and cloud-storage firm at the TechEx North America conference in the middle of May, but my having the appointment on my calendar did not prevent me from completely spacing about it. We then punted to having the conversation over video but next had to reschedule the call multiple times. And now that the piece is finally published, we need to correct a few small items in it.
#AlvaroBedoya #BlueOrigin #BoomSupersonic #boomlessCruise #ChatrieVUnitedStates #dataCenterTax #dataCenters #FTC #MachCutoff #nasa #NewGlenn #RebeccaKellySlaughter #SCOTUS #Smithsonian #Starstruck #supersonicTravel #SupremeCourt #TrumpVSlaughter #VirginiaPolitics #virtualReality #VR #X59 -
Weekly output: not-so-independent agencies, location privacy, Virginia’s data-center tax, Blue Origin’s return-to-flight plans, civil supersonic flight, astronomy in VR, Backblaze
The list below would be a lot of published work for a five-workday week, and yet I didn’t write any of those things or deal with edits to them on Friday. The Supreme Court bears much of the responsibility for this pace, the aerospace-industry news cycle did its own part, and then I had two pieces that I’d started weeks before finally get published on the one day that I gave this keyboard a decent rest.
But wait, there was more: I wrote an extra post for Patreon readers Tuesday about the business calculations I’m working through as I decide if going to Berlin for the IFA tech trade show can pencil out for me.
6/29/2026: Supreme Court Gives Trump the Green Light to Fire Heads of FTC, Other Agencies, PCMag
Since I’ve been following President Trump’s attempts to expel the Democratic minority on the Federal Trade Commission, commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, since first writing about this story last March, I felt obliged to cover the Court’s conclusion of this case.
6/30/2026: Supreme Court: Fourth Amendment Protects Your Phone’s Location History, PCMag
I felt just as obliged to cover the Court ruling that Google’s Location History tool incurs Fourth Amendment protections–and to note that the majority opinion describes this as if Google hadn’t since turned Location History into an on-device, end-to-end-encrypted feature that Google can no longer access if presented with a “geofence warrant.”
6/30/2026: The State With the Most Data Centers Will Now Tax Their Energy Use, PCMag
I had been meaning to write about how Virginia has begun to change its approach to the data centers that now sprawl across Loudoun and Prince William counties. But until the General Assembly reached a belated budget compromise in the closing days of June, I didn’t know what sort of change we’d get.
7/1/2026: Blue Origin: Here’s How We’ll Return New Glenn to Flight Faster Than Expected, PCMag
Blue Origin posted an update Tuesday about its plans to resume launches of its New Glenn rocket. But in addition to having my hands full Tuesday, I needed part of Wednesday to take notes from videos of recent discussions–a panel with Blue founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Dave Limp, another panel led by Ars Technica space reporter Eric Berger, and a NASA press conference featuring administrator Jared Isaacman–that yielded some insight into the company’s situation.
7/2/2026: FAA Moves to Allow Civil Supersonic Flights Over Land, If They’re Quiet Enough, PCMag
This was my longest story published this week, because it had to cover not only the Federal Aviation Administration’s opening of a rulemaking process to legalize commercial supersonic flights over land but also the current state of affairs at Boom Supersonic and NASA’s debut of flight tests of its “low-boom” X-59 aircraft. That was a lot of detail to pack in, and I missed one error in my copy until a few hours after the story posted–I had described Boom’s XB-1 testbed aircraft as a single-engine plane when I meant single-seat.
7/3/2026: Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR, Ars Technica
Earlier in June, I spent a fascinating 40 minutes with a computer strapped to my face in a windowless room in downtown D.C., enjoying a VR tour of some of the universe’s more interesting places. I thought that would be a good fit for a site that routinely covers both technology and astronomy, and that’s how I’ve now had two pieces run at Ars this year after going three years since my previous contribution to one of my daily tech-news reads.
7/3/2026: Backblaze: Backup May Be a ‘Declining’ Business, But We’re Not Backing Away
This post was originally going to start with my talking to an exec with this computer-backup and cloud-storage firm at the TechEx North America conference in the middle of May, but my having the appointment on my calendar did not prevent me from completely spacing about it. We then punted to having the conversation over video but next had to reschedule the call multiple times. And now that the piece is finally published, we need to correct a few small items in it.
#AlvaroBedoya #BlueOrigin #BoomSupersonic #boomlessCruise #ChatrieVUnitedStates #dataCenterTax #dataCenters #FTC #MachCutoff #nasa #NewGlenn #RebeccaKellySlaughter #SCOTUS #Smithsonian #Starstruck #supersonicTravel #SupremeCourt #TrumpVSlaughter #VirginiaPolitics #virtualReality #VR #X59 -
Die #NASA X-59 hat erstmals die Schallmauer durchbrochen. Mit Mach 1,1 flog das Experimentalflugzeug über Kalifornien. Das Ziel: den lauten Überschallknall in ein leises Klopfen verwandeln. #X59 https://winfuture.de/news,159245.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
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Die #NASA X-59 hat erstmals die Schallmauer durchbrochen. Mit Mach 1,1 flog das Experimentalflugzeug über Kalifornien. Das Ziel: den lauten Überschallknall in ein leises Klopfen verwandeln. #X59 https://winfuture.de/news,159245.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
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NASA Minute: June 5, 2026
We are going back to the Moon, and this time, we're building to stay. From Moon base infrastructure to Artemis III preparations, NASA is continuing to build toward that exciting future.
Here’s what’s new in your NASA Minute!
https://images.nasa.gov/details/NASA%20Minute%20June%205,%202026
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NASA Minute: June 5, 2026
We are going back to the Moon, and this time, we're building to stay. From Moon base infrastructure to Artemis III preparations, NASA is continuing to build toward that exciting future.
Here’s what’s new in your NASA Minute!
https://images.nasa.gov/details/NASA%20Minute%20June%205,%202026
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"NASA’s X-59 breaks sound barrier in first supersonic flight"
https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/nasas-x-59-breaks-sound-barrier-in-first-supersonic-flight/
"NASA’s X-59 demonstrator on Friday exceeded Mach 1 for the first time, marking the next step in the agency’s effort to demonstrate a quieter form of supersonic flight" #X59
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"NASA’s X-59 breaks sound barrier in first supersonic flight"
https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/nasas-x-59-breaks-sound-barrier-in-first-supersonic-flight/
"NASA’s X-59 demonstrator on Friday exceeded Mach 1 for the first time, marking the next step in the agency’s effort to demonstrate a quieter form of supersonic flight" #X59
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NASA’s X-59 Aircraft Flies Supersonic for First Time
https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/x-59-first-supersonic-flight/
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NASA’s X-59 Aircraft Flies Supersonic for First Time
https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/x-59-first-supersonic-flight/
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أطلقت NASA مشروع X‑59 "تفوق الصوت" لتقليل الضجيج عند اختراق الحافة الصوتية.
خط أُهمية:
• تجميع بيانات تساعد في تقليل الضوضاء للاتصالات الجويّة السريعة.
• يفتح المجال للنقل التجاري بسرعة تقارب الصوت مع تقليل الأثر البيئي.
• يُظهر التعاون التقني ضرورة الموازنة بين الأداء والخصوصية السمعية.#NASA #X59 #DecentralizedInnovation #PrivacyFirst #FutureTransport
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A NASA inicia testes do X-59, um avião experimental que visa voos supersônicos silenciosos. A fase de testes avaliará seu desempenho em simulações de voos acima da velocidade do som, podendo revolucionar a aviação de alta velocidade.
🔗 https://omniletters.com/nasa-teste-x59-aviao-supersonico-silencioso/
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Seeking Quieter Supersonic Flight
Supersonic flight over the U.S. has been banned by all non-military aircraft for more than fifty years. The ban gained momentum in the 1960s after test programs over St. Louis and Oklahoma provoked public outcry. But NASA’s X-59 aircraft is working to lift the ban by softening the sonic booms that encouraged the ban in the first place. Although it hasn’t been tested at supersonic speeds yet, pilots are putting the sharp and skinny X-59 through its paces, slowly widening the flight envelope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR4Xuslczoo
In the video above, NASA shares footage of some of the recent test flights, including various maneuvers like phugoids, banking rolls, flutter, and landing gear tests. Pay close attention to the pilot’s view and the radio chatter, and you’ll hear that they’re hovering around Mach 0.98 in some cases–just underneath the point of generating a shock wave around the aircraft. It will be neat to see what happens when they finally do go supersonic. Will it be as quiet as promised? (Video credit: NASA; image credit: NASA/L. Losey; see also NASA; via Gizmodo)
#aircraft #flightTest #fluidDynamics #physics #science #shockwave #sonicBoom #supersonic #supersonicFlight #X59 -
Seeking Quieter Supersonic Flight
Supersonic flight over the U.S. has been banned by all non-military aircraft for more than fifty years. The ban gained momentum in the 1960s after test programs over St. Louis and Oklahoma provoked public outcry. But NASA’s X-59 aircraft is working to lift the ban by softening the sonic booms that encouraged the ban in the first place. Although it hasn’t been tested at supersonic speeds yet, pilots are putting the sharp and skinny X-59 through its paces, slowly widening the flight envelope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR4Xuslczoo
In the video above, NASA shares footage of some of the recent test flights, including various maneuvers like phugoids, banking rolls, flutter, and landing gear tests. Pay close attention to the pilot’s view and the radio chatter, and you’ll hear that they’re hovering around Mach 0.98 in some cases–just underneath the point of generating a shock wave around the aircraft. It will be neat to see what happens when they finally do go supersonic. Will it be as quiet as promised? (Video credit: NASA; image credit: NASA/L. Losey; see also NASA; via Gizmodo)
#aircraft #flightTest #fluidDynamics #physics #science #shockwave #sonicBoom #supersonic #supersonicFlight #X59 -
🚀 إنجاز جديد في الطيران الفائق السرعة
- طورت ناسا وFAA محاكي محرك X‑59 يخفّف الصدمة الصوتية، ليبقَى الضجيج تحت 75 ديسيبل.
- الهدف: سفر تجاري يتخطى 340 م/ث دون إزعاج المجتمعات أو قيود المطار. -
🚀 ناسا تنقّح مشروع X‑59 لتخليص المواصلات فوق الصوتي من ضوضاء السونوك!
المفتاح:
- هدف الجيت هو إيقاف الضوضاء تحت 100 ديسيبل، ما يخلِّي السفر السريع يلقى قبول كبير في المدن.
- تجربة التنقل الجوي يصبح أقرب للواقع التجاري مع الحفاظ على بيئة سمعية نظيفة.مستقبل الطيران المتّقن يبدأ هنا.
#NASA #X59 #فائق_الصوت #صيانة_الصوت #ماستودون<|endoftext|>
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NASA Armstrong TG-14
#AFRC #California #NASAaircraft #NASA’sArmstrongFlightResearchCenter #Quesst #TG14 #X59 #aeronautics
▶️ 1 new picture from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Armstrong_TG-14_%28AFRC2025-0132-02%29.jpg
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NASA Armstrong TG-14
#AFRC #California #NASAaircraft #NASA’sArmstrongFlightResearchCenter #Quesst #TG14 #X59 #aeronautics
▶️ 1 new picture from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Armstrong_TG-14_%28AFRC2025-0132-02%29.jpg
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The NASA Minute: April 17, 2026
Artemis II is safely home, the X‑59 ramps up flight testing, Cygnus docks with the Space Station, and SPHEREx uncovers mysteries of the universe.
Here’s what you need to know in your NASA Minute.
#Artemis #X59 #Cygnus #ISS #SPHEREx
Source: https://images.nasa.gov/details/NASA%20Minute%20April%2017,%202026
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The NASA Minute: April 17, 2026
Artemis II is safely home, the X‑59 ramps up flight testing, Cygnus docks with the Space Station, and SPHEREx uncovers mysteries of the universe.
Here’s what you need to know in your NASA Minute.
#Artemis #X59 #Cygnus #ISS #SPHEREx
Source: https://images.nasa.gov/details/NASA%20Minute%20April%2017,%202026
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NASA’s X-59 Shows Streamlined Profile in Wheels-Up Flights
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NASA’s X-59 Shows Streamlined Profile in Wheels-Up Flights
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NASA’s X-59 Completes First Wheels-Up Flight
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NASA’s X-59 Completes First Wheels-Up Flight
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عطل فني يُنهى الرحلة التجريبية الثانية لطائرة ناسا الأسرع من الصوت X-59
https://misryoum.com/technology/art-ynha-lrhlh-ltjrybyh-lthanyh/
حلقت طائرة ناسا الأسرع من الصوت X-59 الجديدة في سماء الولايات المتحدة، لكنها لم تستمر في التحليق طويلًا، حيث هبطت الطائرة X-59، التي يُحتمل أن تُحدث ثورة في مجال الطيران، بعد تسع دقائق فقط من إقلاعها وذلك بسبب...
#عطل #فني #ينهى #الرحلة #التجريبية #الثانية #لطائرة #ناسا #الأسرع #الصوت #X59 #منصة_مصر_اليوم_الاخبارية #misryoum_com
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NASA’s X-59 Prepares for Second Flight
Over the coming months, NASA will take the quiet supersonic jet faster and higher, while validating safety and performance, a process known as envelope expansion.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/armstrong/nasas-x-59-prepares-for-second-flight/
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NASA’s X-59 Prepares for Second Flight
Over the coming months, NASA will take the quiet supersonic jet faster and higher, while validating safety and performance, a process known as envelope expansion.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/armstrong/nasas-x-59-prepares-for-second-flight/
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NASA Chase Aircraft Ensures X-59’s Safety in Flight
As NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft continues a series of flight tests over the California high desert in 2026, its pilot will be flying with a buddy closely looking out for his safety.
https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/chase-aircraft-ensures-x-59-safety/
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NASA Chase Aircraft Ensures X-59’s Safety in Flight
As NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft continues a series of flight tests over the California high desert in 2026, its pilot will be flying with a buddy closely looking out for his safety.
https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/chase-aircraft-ensures-x-59-safety/
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New video takes you into the cockpit for 1st flight of @NASA's new X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet. Via @spacedotcom #Aviation ✈️🧑✈️🕶️ #NASA #X59
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New video takes you into the cockpit for 1st flight of @NASA's new X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet. Via @spacedotcom #Aviation ✈️🧑✈️🕶️ #NASA #X59
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NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft successfully completed its first flight, testing quiet supersonic technology. Could commercial supersonic air travel return after two decades since Concorde? https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/nasa-x-59-first-flight-supersonic-return-qx080p3q?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #X59 #SupersonicTravel #NASA #QuietSupersonicTechnology #US
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X-59 First Flight Media Resources
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/quesst/x-59-first-flight-media-resources/
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X-59 First Flight Media Resources
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/quesst/x-59-first-flight-media-resources/
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NASA’s X-59 Completes First Flight, Prepares for More Flight Testing
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NASA’s X-59 Completes Historic First Flight
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First flight! Is the X-59 the shape of #supersonic things to come? https://cosmiclog.com/2025/10/29/super-quiet-x-59-supersonic-jet-makes-first-test-flight/ #NASA #LockheedMartin #X59 #Avgeek #Tech #Aerospace
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Das neue #Experimental-#Flugzeug #X59 der #NASA hat den #Erstflug absolviert. Maschine soll die #Schallgrenze so leise wie möglich durchbrechen - mit einem Geräusch, das nur dem Zuschlagen einer Autotür ähnelt. https://winfuture.de/news,154561.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
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NASA'nın sessiz süpersonik uçağı X-59 ilk uçuşunu yaptı! 🚀 Ses hızının %40 üzerine çıkabilen bu teknoloji, geleceğin hava yolculuğunu sessiz ve hızlı hale getirebilir. Süpersonik seyahat geri mi dönüyor?
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NASA’s one-of-a-kind X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft approaches first flight
