Nasa validates 'impossible' space drive

[Phedre]

Nasa is a major player in space science, so when a team from the agency this week presents evidence that "impossible" microwave thrusters seem to work, something strange is definitely going on. Either the results are completely wrong, or Nasa has confirmed a major breakthrough in space propulsion.

British scientist Roger Shawyer has been trying to interest people in his EmDrive for some years through his company SPR Ltd. Shawyer claims the EmDrive converts electric power into thrust, without the need for any propellant by bouncing microwaves around in a closed container. He has built a number of demonstration systems, but critics reject his relativity-based theory and insist that, according to the law of conservation of momentum, it cannot work.

According to good scientific practice, an independent third party needed to replicate Shawyer's results. As Wired.co.uk reported, this happened last year when a Chinese team built its own EmDrive and confirmed that it produced 720 mN(about 72 grams) of thrust, enough for a practical satellite thruster. Such a thruster could be powered by solar electricity, eliminating the need for the supply of propellant that occupies up to half the launch mass of many satellites. The Chinese work attracted little attention; it seems that nobody in the West believed in it.




http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/31/nasa-validates-impossible-space-drive

[The Seeker]

it seems that nobody in the West believed in it.




http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/31/nasa-validates-impossible-space-drive

Perhaps this system is on the banned list of things that aren't supposed to exist or be possible...

similar to all the inventors that get arrested and have their work confiscated for copyright or patent infringement...

' Mr Sulu, engage impulse engines..."

seeker

[rdunk]

Hi Phadre, an interesting post!! There may be other prior posts here on this, but i don't recall seeing any. With just a little looking on the net, it seems there has been considerable work on research of this technology. I have only looked at a few of the result papers, but it certainly does seem that some seem to believe this to be pretty much proven technology.

One of the informational sites I found is the SPR Ltd site you mentioned. They have a chronological dated reference log that goes back to 2010, with various specific detailed papers and presentations on this. As a "for example", I am posting a link to just one one of the articles, with a headline title and photo, that discusses an AIC presentation in Toronto October 2014. And I am also posting a link to the SPR Ltd site, as a go-to for others here

SPR Ltd.: http://www.emdrive.com

The 2014 Toronto Conference: http://www.emdrive.com/iac2014presentation.pdf