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A milestone for our experimental
supersonic airplane.

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Stretching Orion’s wings
before the next flight.

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And technologies to help fight wildfires.

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A few of the stories to tell you about,
This Week at NASA!

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The experimental X-59 aircraft being built
for our Quesst mission

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has been outfitted with its
lower empennage, or tail assembly.

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Teams can now continue final wiring and
system checkouts

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in preparation for integrated
ground testing.

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The X-59 is designed to demonstrate
the ability to fly supersonic

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and produce just a quiet sonic thump,
instead of a loud sonic boom.

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Teams at our Kennedy Space Center recently
tested a solar array wing

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to make sure it extends correctly.

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Four of the solar arrays will be installed
on the Orion spacecraft

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for the Artemis II mission.

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Artemis II will be the first Artemis
mission to carry astronauts

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around the Moon and back to Earth.

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The ACERO project, led by
our Ames Research Center,

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is using drones and advanced aviation
technologies to improve wildfire fighting

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coordination and operations.

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ACERO’s airspace management technologies
provide situational awareness

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to help responders avoid conflicts
with aircraft operations.

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Having this situational awareness could
also enable them

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to safely integrate drones into
the firefighting effort.

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Our Lucy spacecraft recently captured
its first look at four of the

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Jupiter Trojan asteroids the 
mission plans to visit.

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From more than 330 million miles away,
 the spacecraft spotted

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Eurybates, Polymele, Leucus, and Orus.

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The asteroids are just single points
of light, but the team can still use

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the imaging data to prepare for
the future up-close observations

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of Lucy’s targets.