From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

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Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by ...

Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg safely piloted the XB-1 to a top speed of Mach 1.122 (652 KTAS), reaching a maximum altitude of 35,290 feet over the Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor and ...

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test flight Tuesday in the same Mojave Desert airspace in California where Charles “Chuck” Yeager was the first person to break ...

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tearing through the air tens of thousands of feet above the Mojave Desert and a crowd of delighted onlookers. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 within about 11 minutes of taking off ...

The test flight for the Boom Supersonic XB-1, a prototype aircraft that many tout as the Concorde’s successor, will be livestreamed at 6:45 a.m. PST on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, from Mojave north ...

Boom officials explained that the “world’s first independently developed supersonic jet” will break the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor and the Black Mountain Supersonic Corridor ...