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That's the SpaceX one right?

 

Though NASA is budgeting money towards new aeronautics research, so I guess we can look forwards to some cool new experimental designs.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/nasa-proposes-x-plane-revival-with-supersonic-subso-421736/

 

NASA plans a return to a decades-old tradition of developing and flying experimental aircraft projects, or “X-planes”, in order to achieve new breakthroughs in supersonic and subsonic aeronautics research under the Fiscal 2017 budget proposal submitted to Congress on 9 February.

 

The budget request reveals a 23% leap in funding for NASA’s aeronautics research division, rising from $640 million in Fiscal 2016 to $790 million next year. The agency also released a 10-year outlook with aeronautics funding peaking at $1.3 billion Fiscal 2023, when possibly two planned X-planes are scheduled to be operating.

 

“It felt like Christmas in January,” says Jaiwon Shin, NASA’s associate administrator for aeronautics research, recalling the moment when the agency’s final request was confirmed.

 

 

NASA will develop a preliminary design for a supersonic X-plane in Fiscal 2016, then launch a competition next year to develop and build the low-boon supersonic demonstrator (LBSD). Flight tests could begin as early as 2021.

 

NASA also will launch in Fiscal 2017 a preliminary design for a hybrid wing body, subsonic demonstrator. But the hybrid wing body will compete with two other concepts – a horizontally-aligned double-bubble airframe and a truss-braced wing – to be developed as NASA’s next subsonic X-plane.

 

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