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Well, just shoot the thing into space, fire it at 10kW and let's see whether it moves. Currently it's just a toy with a power rating of 80 watts, so first thing should be to make it bigger and see whether the supposed impulse scalates.

There was leak some time ago. Week or something like that. I suppose we now fly to another star.

A Cubesat? Come on, there's like 1,000 possible effects that can overpower the alleged thrust. The paper claims a thrust of 1.2 milinewtons per kilowat, on a device powered by 0.08 kilowats, that's a whopping 96 micronewtons of alleged thrust.

So don't bother with launching yet another tiny toy engine into space, build an effin 10 kilowat prototype and measure whether it produces thrust on Earth. Then, either the alleged thrust will escalate and farewell Newton's 3rd, or it won't produce any measurable thrust and welcome to qwack science.

In order to be of use, the effect must be real and must escalate. It is highly suspicious that they keep it in toy power ratings and want to launch it to space rather than just make it bigger. That's a propaganda stunt, not sensible engineering.

NASA knows how to launch it into space. Run the drive for long enough and they will be able to see the course of the satellite change far enough to prove that the EM drive is providing thrust.

Scaling the EM drive up to useful power levels probably requires an understanding of how the EM drive works that they do not have.

the theory works yes...
but its EXTREMELY far from beign usable as its incredibly inefficient right now
1.2 millinewtons per kilowatt

for that kidn of power, your better off shooting electricity into space. or lightbulbs and using the light and heat produced to push you
seriously....you'd get more thrust using LIGHTBULBS than with this.


or heck, using gravity.


the theory has been proven that somethign is happening. but its not understood HOW. theres a number of unknowns in it so for all we know the thrust its providing is actually electricity escaping(which actually matches the thrust being produced)

and newton's 3rd law isn't disproven, there is a counterpush involved. but again its so microscopically small its hard to detect.


all this news is is "hey we found an alternate way to produce thrust, but its inefficient right now and not understood"