A New Space Race Kicks Off Between the US and China Thanks to EmDrive

[kevindavis007]

The EmDrive is a controversial space propulsion engine technology that is supposed to be able to function without any form of rocket fuel and get astronomers into space much quicker than anything ever has before. But, for obvious reasons, it has received much criticism and scepticism along the way. However, China has just announced that they’re busy carrying out tests using the EmDrive, so it appears not everyone is against the idea.


After funding researchers for five years, testing is finally being carried out aboard China’s Tiangong-2 space station. The way in which the spacecraft works is by releasing microwaves into a cone-shaped engine that allows it to thrust forwards like a propulsion system. The man responsible for the acceleration of the EmDrive technology is Roger Shawyer, when in 1999 he claimed that the EmDrive technology would allow astronomers to reach Mars in just 70 days, opposed to the three or fours months it would normally take.


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[Doug Loss]

Looked at from the outside, the EmDrive appears to be the "cold fusion" of space propulsion technology.  I've posted links to criticisms of the experimental procedures used by the advocates before.  Until someone not a proponent can replicate the results verifiably, the EmDrive will be about the equivalent of the Dean Drive.

[guitar4jesus]

Looked at from the outside, the EmDrive appears to be the "cold fusion" of space propulsion technology.  I've posted links to criticisms of the experimental procedures used by the advocates before.  Until someone not a proponent can replicate the results verifiably, the EmDrive will be about the equivalent of the Dean Drive.

Yup.

[Joe Wooten]

Looked at from the outside, the EmDrive appears to be the "cold fusion" of space propulsion technology.  I've posted links to criticisms of the experimental procedures used by the advocates before.  Until someone not a proponent can replicate the results verifiably, the EmDrive will be about the equivalent of the Dean Drive.

The Dean Drive....That's one that has been relegated to the memory hole. Have not heard about it since the late 1970's when Jerry Pournelle published the results of some experiments he witnessed.

[bolobaby]

Looked at from the outside, the EmDrive appears to be the "cold fusion" of space propulsion technology.  I've posted links to criticisms of the experimental procedures used by the advocates before.  Until someone not a proponent can replicate the results verifiably, the EmDrive will be about the equivalent of the Dean Drive.

@Doug Loss

You mean like NASA...?

http://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-official-nasa-s-peer-reviewed-em-drive-paper-has-finally-been-published

[Doug Loss]

@Doug Loss

You mean like NASA...?

http://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-official-nasa-s-peer-reviewed-em-drive-paper-has-finally-been-published

I'll look over the NASA paper, but just because they publish a paper doesn't automatically mean it's "settled science."  Of which there is no such thing, of course...

OK, I looked over the NASA paper.  It's from November; serious questions about the experimental procedures used have been raised since then.  So no, the NASA paper means nothing special.