{"id":19023,"date":"2015-11-02T19:31:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T03:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/in-a-new-round-of-testing-nasa-confirms-yet-again-that-the-impossible-emdrive-thruster-works"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:29:41","slug":"in-a-new-round-of-testing-nasa-confirms-yet-again-that-the-impossible-emdrive-thruster-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/in-a-new-round-of-testing-nasa-confirms-yet-again-that-the-impossible-emdrive-thruster-works","title":{"rendered":"In a new round of testing, NASA confirms yet again that the \u2018impossible\u2019 EMdrive thruster works"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Engineer Roger Shawyer\u2019s controversial EM Drive thruster jets back into relevancy this week, as a team of researchers at NASA\u2019s Eagleworks Laboratories recently completed yet another round<\/a> of testing on the seemingly impossible tech. Though no official peer-reviewed lab paper has been published yet, and NASA institutes strict press release restrictions on the Eagleworks lab these days, engineer Paul March took to the NASA Spaceflight forum<\/a> to explain the group\u2019s findings. In essence, by utilizing an improved experimental procedure, the team managed to mitigate some of the errors from prior tests \u2014 yet still found signals of unexplained thrust.<\/p>\n

Isaac Newton should be sweating.<\/p>\n

Flying in the face of traditional laws of physics, the EM Drive makes use of a magnetron and microwaves to create a propellantless propulsion system. By pushing microwaves into a closed, truncated cone and back towards the small end of said cone, the drive creates the momentum and force necessary to propel a craft forward. Because the system is a reactionless drive, it goes against humankind\u2019s fundamental comprehension of physics, hence its controversial nature.<\/p>\n

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Engineer Roger Shawyer\u2019s controversial EM Drive thruster jets back into relevancy this week, as a team of researchers at NASA\u2019s Eagleworks Laboratories recently completed yet another round of testing on the seemingly impossible tech. Though no official peer-reviewed lab paper has been published yet, and NASA institutes strict press release restrictions on the Eagleworks lab [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56811,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19023\/revisions\/56811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}