The first dreams of supersonic air travel were crushed by annoyed Oklahoma City residents in the 1960s. Decades later, it ...

Sonic booms are top of the mind for some at the FAA as it evaluates whether to approve SpaceX’s request to carry out up to 25 Starship flights per year from South Texas. (Currently, the company ...

There have been rockets launching from Vandenberg for decades, so why are the Falcon 9 launches of such concern? "Because of the Starlink satellites, the orbital mechanics for where they're trying to ...

As the Super Heavy booster made its way back to a pinpoint landing, an earsplitting sonic boom rang out. “It truly was one of the loudest things I’ve ever heard or experienced,” said Noah ...

SpaceX has issued a warning over "sonic booms" as Elon Musk's firm gears up for another Falcon 9 launch. In a statement ahead of the launch, SpaceX warned residents of the nearby counties of Santa ...

While the plane’s engines were still audible on the ground, surpassing the Mach cutoff ensured no one heard a disruptive sonic boom. According to the company’s February 10th announcement ...

But on Wednesday, researchers with the company reported a noteworthy advance: They created elephant stem cells that ... speeds generates a three-part sonic boom. Tylenol or Advil?: ...

"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 ...

An RAF fighter jet travelling faster than the speed of sound caused a sonic boom in the skies above a county last week. Social media immediately lit up as people on the ground in Norfolk asked ...

Sonic booms – the psychological warfare Israel uses to sow fear in Lebanon. Since October 7, Israel has been using thunderous noise, triggering memories of Beirut’s devastating port explosion ...

Between April 2013 and February 2021, 13 sonic booms, external were recorded by the UK's Military of Defence (MoD). Seven of those occurred in the East of England. Under UK aviation law, all ...