NASA is designing a new jet engine concept for the ultra-efficient, sustainable airliners of the future. The US space agency is working with private sector partners to make the aviation industry ...

Summary and Key Points: In 2021, NASA retired its S-3B Viking fleet, a twin-engine turbofan jet used for 16 years in research. Originally designed by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Navy in the 1960s ...

But NASA’s newest X-plane ... the X-59 will use the F414-100 turbofan—providing 22,000 pounds of thrust—which is adapted from the engine that powers the Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet.