Boom Supersonic is an American aerospace company designing a supersonic airliner named Overture, aiming to revive commercial supersonic travel. As an aircraft manufacturer, Boom Supersonic is designing Overture to carry 64-80 passengers at Mach 1.7 with a focus on sustainability by using 100% sustainable aviation fuel. Key partners and customers include American Airlines, United Airlines, Japan Airlines, NASA, and Northrop Grumman.
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ViaSat-3 F3’s reflector and boom have deployed in space.
ViaSat-3 F3’s reflector and boom have successfully deployed.
FrontierSat also carries a camera-monitored deployable composite lattice boom to test mechanical deployment in microgravity.
Opterus’ Trussed Collapsible Tubular Mast technology is a lightweight composite boom architecture proven through earlier SBIR awards.
The X-59 second flight will begin low-boom flight envelope expansion testing.
The later FARRAH satellites also carried single- and double-boom omni antennas to suppress sidelobe interceptions.
Growth in China’s remote sensing satellite fleet has been driven by a for‑profit commercial boom that produced hyper-specialized spacecraft such as the Power Infrared Satellite-A (电力红外卫星A星).
The 2025 ASAP report focused its review on five core areas: NASA’s strategic vision and governance; the Moon to Mars program; the future U.S. presence in low Earth orbit; health and medical risks in human spaceflight; and development of the X-59 Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator.
ASAP highlighted the first flight of the X-59 Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator as a key step toward enabling quieter supersonic flight over land.
The collaboration focuses on evolving the Brazilian-built KC-390 platform with enhanced air-refuelling capabilities, including development of an autonomous aerial refuelling boom.
The proposed KC-390 enhancements aim to expand the aircraft’s role in boom-based refuelling used by the US Air Force for many fixed-wing aircraft.
Approximately $15 billion was invested in space SPACs during the boom years of 2020-2022.
The X-59 is a supersonic design engineered to reduce sonic boom intensity to what researchers describe as a gentle thump.
The X-59 aims to reduce the sonic boom generated during supersonic flight to enable quieter flights.
The X-59's upcoming tests will include its first supersonic flights to achieve optimal speed and altitude for a quiet boom.
The X-59 is designed to demonstrate the ability to fly at supersonic speeds while reducing the sonic boom to a gentle thump.
Residents near launch sites could be awakened by the noise of nighttime launches, with up to 14% affected and up to 82% by the sonic boom from Super Heavy landings.
Novaspace estimates the defense spending boom in Earth Observation could yield a $182.6 billion growth in the sector within the next few years.
The ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network monitors key operations related to NISAR, including the deployment of its boom and radar antenna reflector.