Tajmar Tests Refutes Emdrive Reactionless Drive and Mach Effect Thruster Claims

Tajmars team at Dresden University of Technology had intensive tests and analysis of three EmDrive variants and measurements refute all EmDrive claims by at least 3 orders of magnitude. High-Accuracy Thrust Measurements of the EMDrive and Elimination of False-Positive Effects High-Accuracy Thrust Measurements of the EMDrive and Elimination of False-Positive Effects The EMDrive is a …

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Mach Effect Propulsion Study Proved There Is No Vibration Error

The Mach Effect Propulsion NASA NIAC study went through a lot of effort to prove there was no vibration generated errors. The entire presentation and most of the Q&A was a defense of the validity of the first test device. They are working to increase the size of the propulsion effect. They are working to …

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Mach Effect Propulsion at 60 millinewtons per kilowatt Would Match Hall ion thruster

Refinement of the Mach Effect Propulsion using brass separation from the reaction mass has improved the thrust by about 65 times up to 60 millinewtons per kilowatt. This would be competitive with the best Hall ion thrusters if there is replication and proving the technology in space. Heidi Fearn will be taking a working device …

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Mach Effect Thruster still works as Tajmar team made substantial mistakes in their tests

The Nasa Space flight forum has a report on the Mach Effect Thruster test. Above is what Woodward hopes to eventually build for propellentless space travel Here is the kind of device they are testing now February 2018, James Woodward loaned a good Mach Effect Thruster (accompanied by a specially designed isolation transformer) to Martin …

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Mach Effect Propellantless drive gets NIAC phase 2 and progress towards great interstellar propulsion

James Woodward and the Space Studies Institute has a Phase 2 NASA Innovative Advanced funded study. They are looking at the implementation of an innovative thrust producing technology for use in NASA missions involving in space main propulsion. Mach Effect Gravity Assist (MEGA) drive propulsion is based on peer-reviewed, technically credible physics. Mach effects are …

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Mach Effect Propulsion 2016 – it is proven, replicated and will scale to fast interstellar travel

Woodward in 2016 indicates that there were multiple experimentalists replicating the initial experiments. Most of the videos are from the Sept 2016, Breakthrough Propulsion Workshop. Woodward is convinced it is proven, replicated and will scale to fast interstellar travel. It will take some decades to achieve but the effects are there and replicated. Various scaling …

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Mach Effect Propulsion Replication and modeling that matches experimentation

The Mach-Effect thruster is a propellantless propulsion concept that has been in development by J.F. Woodward for more than two decades. It consists of a piezo stack that produces mass fluctuations, which in turn can lead to net time-averaged thrusts. So far, thrusts predictions had to use an efficiency factor to explain some two orders …

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Machs Effect interstellar propellentless propulsion mission proposal at NASA NIAC

Finally Mach Effect propulsion had gotten useful levels of funding and will get a validation test with NASA. They reported interim results and have made good progress. Nextbigfuture covered the announcement of funding by NASA NIAC for mach effect propulsion in April 2017. They now have presented the new experiments and path forward with the …

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Mach Effects for In Space Propulsion: Interstellar Mission

NASA is funding Mach effect propulsion in the latest round of advanced concept projects. Nextbigfuture has covered Woodwards Mach effect propulsion in dozens of articles. They propose to study the implementation of an innovative thrust producing technology for use in NASA missions involving in space main propulsion. Mach Effect Thruster (MET) propulsion is based on …

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First two generation 3+ nuclear reactors will be operation in China by the end of this year

The four reactor coolant pumps at unit 1 of the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China’s Shandong province have been operated simultaneously at full speed for the first time. The AP1000 is set to begin operating by the end of the year. The plant is a pressurized water reactor with improved use of passive nuclear …

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