UPDATE: IVO CEO Richard Mansell replied to me. The IVO Quantum drives have not been turned on yet. IVO is waiting on Rogue Systems. UPDATE: We need to track the semi-major axis increasing for the evidence that the satellite is increasing its orbit and the thrusters are working. The orbits seemed different to me looking …
Here is information of the Quantized inertia drive and experiments. There is information from several of the papers, video discussions and direct communication that I, Brian Wang, had with Mike McCulloch. Mike McCulloch is working with two other teams planning to launch cubesats with propellentless thrusters, one of them with connections to NASA. DARPA is …
There have been full scale nuclear thermal rocket engines built and tested on the ground since the 1960s. The US had the NERVA project. The attraction is that the ISP would be up to triple the ISP of chemical rockets. Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) systems work by heating up a gas, usually hydrogen or ammonia, …
DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale X-plane to demonstrate the viability of using active flow control (AFC) actuators for primary flight control. The award is Phase 3 of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program. The X-65 flight is controlled by using jets of air from a pressurized …
DARPA support Microsoft and PsiQuantum to make utility scale quantum computers. DARPA has selected Microsoft Corporation and PsiQuantum to move to the next phase of US2QC (Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing), which recently kicked off and is expected to run through March 2025. “These researchers are working extraordinarily hard, presenting solid technology descriptions and …
A Harvard-led, DARPA supported team developed novel logical qubits to enable scalable quantum computers. A team of researchers working on DARPA’s Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices (ONISQ) program has created the first-ever quantum circuit with logical quantum bits (qubits), a key discovery that could accelerate fault-tolerant quantum computing and revolutionize concepts for designing quantum …
Currently, drones run out of power after days, hour or minutes. If there was wireless power beaming then electrically powered drones could stay flying over a battlefield indefinitely. Years of flight could become possible. Swarms of drones would be have the power to stay over entire states or countries indefinitely. The multi-year electrical drones could …
The DARPA Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project aims to build an X-plane that is like a realworld Avengers Quinjet. It will be a no compromise subsonic plane. It will land and takeoff like a helicopter but it will be 100 mph faster than the Osprey helicopter. The new SPRINT will go about 450 …
Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company, has been selected for phase 1 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies (SPRINT) X-Plane Demonstration Project. This project aims to design, build, and fly an X-Plane to demonstrate technologies and integrated concepts necessary for a transformational combination of aircraft speed and runway …
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are not providing videos and pictures of the army entering and defeating the infamous Hamas tunnels. There have been reports of the use of drones (flying and ground), sponge bombs, explosives, dogs and bulldozers being used to counter the lengthy Hamas tunnels. There have been videos of Israeli bulldozers digging …
Rotating detonation engine could be up to 25% more efficient than traditional jet engines. This could make airplanes and missile faster or with longer range. Smaller weapons could reach the same speeds and ranges as today’s missiles. Rotating detonation rocket engines (RDREs) use detonation as the primary means of energy conversion, producing more useful available …