For most travelers, the loud, window-rattling boom of a supersonic jet is something you hear about in documentaries rather ...

also known as a shock wave, that sounds like an explosion. It’s this “sharp release of pressure” that we hear as a sonic boom, according to NASA. If the space shuttle continues to exceed the ...

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 ...

More than 20 years after the last commercial Concorde flight, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week ...

a unit of pressure that measures the strength of the shock wave from a sonic boom. An instrument set up on the roof of the Margaritaville Beach Resort on South Padre Island, a popular tourist ...

the military base warned that it would conduct a functional flight check sometime between 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. A sonic boom is a loud explosive noise caused by the shock wave from an aircraft ...