Friday, December 30, 2016

EMDrive being worked on in China

To follow up last month's post it seems that China is pushing forward its research on the EMDrive and may actually be testing it in space already. According to NextBigFuture:
"The China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), a subsidiary of the Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) and the manufacturer of the Dong Fang Hong satellites, has held a press conference in Beijing explaining the importance of the EmDrive research and summarizing what China is doing to move the technology forward.
China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) team statements corresponds with information provided to IB Times from an anonymous source. According to their informant, China already has an EM Drive on board its version of the International Space Station, the space laboratory Tiangong-2."
It seems unlikely that China would invest so much unless they were confident of success.

Meanwhile at NASA the paper referred to last month has been published, confirming a thrust of 1.2mN per kW (report by NextBigFuture).

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