What is EMDrive? EMDrive is an electromagnetic propulsion system. In theory, the EMDrive would allow spacecraft to travel between planets using only the power of the sun to generate electricity, astronauts could reach the moon in four hours, Mars in 70 days, and Pluto in 18 months.
Originally developed by British inventor Dr. Roger Shawyer, the EMDrive is reputed to be able to do with trapped microwaves. Dr. Roger Shawyer was a program project manager at Astrium, the European Space Satellite Company was once owned by British Aerospace.
The existence of the EMDrive was first made known to the public in the December 2002 issue of Eureka magazine, trade journal aimed at design and future concept engineers.
On Nov 17 2016 NASA has presented its paper on the new rocket propulsion EMDrive in Journal of Propulsion and Power online.
According to the paper, Eagleworks Laboratories created a radio frequency resonant cavity thruster with a capacity to produce 1.2 millinewtons per kilowatt of thrust in vacuum. NASA used electricity to create the microwaves and bounced off waves in the closed copper cone.
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