IVO Quantum drive has no measured thrust yet, but the Quantum Drive is fully operational in space! It has passed its testing phase with flying colors. Congratulations to the @ivo_ltd team for successfully producing space hardware that survived launch & 6 months in space! Now the fun can begin.
Remember that the goal of this mission is to test the Quantum Drive and Mike McCulloch ‘s theory of QI. They might see thrust, they might not. The point is to have a successful testing period with a properly operating test platform. So far, that mission has been a success.
Finally, we will get to see a test of the IVO quantum drive which is a propellentless drive. If it is successful in raising the orbit of the OTP-2 Rogue Space satellite (Norad tracking Satellite 63235), then it could open up access to interstellar travel and fast travel around the solar system. The open up interstellar travel happens if the devices could generated propulsion for decades so long as there was nuclear energy source. This would not be proven in this test but successful propulsion opens up that possibility.
"Care to comment on the recent OTP-2 trends?" Yes, I would, but not yet. We are being very cautious about claims. My biggest thing is to root out any & all false positives during LEO testing just like we did during terrestrial testing. When it's right, we'll share clear results!
— Richard Mansell (@RaMansell) October 7, 2025
To those asking when the Quantum Drive will be turned on: it has actually been turned on multiple times over the last month during this operational test phase. They've all been rather short bursts that would not affect orbital characteristics-even if thrust had been produced.
— Richard Mansell (@RaMansell) September 18, 2025
This is controversial because if it is successful and validated then it will change what is accepted physics.
The experiment will need to raise the orbit of the satellite as evidence that the propulsion successfully works. Celestrak is monitoring the satellite.
If it works for this test for a few minutes or hours, there needs to be confirmation that it works for years.
If it works then a multi-decade nuclear power source would be able to provide constant acceleration for decades. This would enable reaching very fast speeds.
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This is what a professionally built spacecraft that works looks like
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-supercomputers-tunnels-nasa-road-artemis.html
Seriously, no one tried it after 6 months! Come on…
they have been doing dozens of short tests. but purposely not long duration orbit changing “burns”.
Were there any projections regarding its possible thrust levels? In case of the success what can be expected?
Physics always looks impossible—right up until a satellite quietly refuses to follow Newton’s script. Then suddenly everyone’s scrambling for the footnotes, scribbled across a solar‑system‑sized notepad.
I still can’t believe that you could block an interaction with the quantum vacuum that just *looks like* radiation from the horizon, with a physical barrier. I mean, there’s a whole planet on one side of me, isn’t that shielding inertia enough for them to detect?
And, “Feasible if the receiving antenna is solar system wide, and gamma rays are used.”
Somebody actually wrote that sentence and didn’t face palm hard enough to put themselves into the hospital…
rofl – 10 thumbs up – – sometimes you just have to state the obvious
So, I think I’ll amplify on that “just looks like”.
So, we have this Unruh radiation based model of inertia where particles are subject to a sea of virtual radiation, and acceleration causes an imbalance in that radiation, that causes a back force opposing the acceleration, that we call “inertia”. The idea is that the effective “horizon” of the universe gets closer to you on the side you’re accelerating away from, and since you can only see waves that fit in the space between you and the horizon, the side you’re accelerating away from has room for less radiation than the side you’re moving towards, and the resulting imbalance pushing back on you.
Now, I’ll concede that the numbers work out about right, so it seems like a viable theory.
But inertia responds to motion at least on the order of femtoseconds, and it’s not like every time you hit a pool ball, radiation that had formerly been occupying the billions of lightyears between the ball and the horizon of the universe goes away while your cue stick hits the ball, and then reappears when it’s up to speed. That would be action at a distance with a vengeance!
Rather, what we have here is an interaction with the quantum vacuum that LOOKS LIKE radiation, or maybe is mathematically analogous to radiation, but there’s no actual radiation involved. Nothing is actually going on between the pool ball and the horizon of the universe. Rather, something is going on between the fundamental particles making up the object, and the quantum vacuum they actually occupy, and since, again, inertia responds within at most femtoseconds, that interaction has to be confined to a region no larger than light can travel in femtoseconds. Probably no larger than the effective radius of the particle!
So, back to the IVO drive, which has photons bouncing back and forth, and thus accelerating wildly in alternating directions, which is supposed to pull the Unruh horizon in really close. And we have a physical shield that’s supposed to suppress that virtual radiation on one side of the drive.
But, again, there isn’t any REAL radiation involved, and certainly not real radiation centimeters away from the drive, for the shield to interact with. And if there were, the Earth would be producing easily measured variations in the amount of inertia in the vertical direction vs horizontal.
So I don’t believe this drive can possibly work, or if it does work, it’s not working on the basis of the theory behind it. Because it actually makes no sense even on the basis of the theory it’s based on!
I agree with everything you’ve said. In addition, they aren’t talking about it in the way they would if they actually believed it.
If they can violate conservation of momentum, then they can use it to violate conservation of energy, by accelerating the ends of a rotating rod. So if they’ve actually discovered a perpetual motion machine providing unlimited free energy, you’d expect them to be talking about THAT minor detail. Not improved spacecraft.
They’d be talking about building power stations to sell their free electricity to the grid. And someday, when they get around to building their spacecraft, they won’t power it with nuclear reactors that need fuel. They’ll just power it with their perpetual motion machines.
Maybe there’s a way to reconcile this, where they truly believe they’ve broken one law but not the other. But it does seem like a strange way to be talking.