{"id":32835,"date":"2016-12-21T13:29:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T21:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/china-trumps-nasa-with-working-startrek-em-propulsion-drive-testing-now-aboard-the-tiangong-2-space-laboratory"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:29:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:29:16","slug":"china-trumps-nasa-with-working-startrek-em-propulsion-drive-testing-now-aboard-the-tiangong-2-space-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/china-trumps-nasa-with-working-startrek-em-propulsion-drive-testing-now-aboard-the-tiangong-2-space-laboratory","title":{"rendered":"China Trumps NASA With Working \u201cStarTrek\u201d EM Propulsion Drive \u2013\u201cTesting Now Aboard the Tiangong-2 Space Laboratory\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4hTdSg47h3k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists with the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) claim NASA\u2019s results \u2018re-confirm\u2019 what they\u2019d already achieved, and have plans to implement it in satellites \u2018as quickly as possible.\u2019 China claims they\u2019ve created a working prototype of the \u2018impossible\u2019 reactionless engine \u2013 and they say they\u2019re already testing it in orbit aboard the Tiangong-2 space laboratory. The radical, fuel-free EmDrive recently stirred up controversy after a paper published by a team of NASA researchers appeared to show they\u2019d successfully built the technology.<\/p>\n<p>The implications for this could be huge. For instance, current satellites could be half the size they are today without the need to carry fuel.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference in Beijing, researchers with CAST confirmed the government has been funding research into the technology since 2010, and claimed they\u2019ve developed a device that\u2019s already being tested in low-Earth orbit, IBTimes UK reports. It comes just a month after anonymous sources told IBTimes UK that tests on the EmDrive were underway aboard Tiangong-2 shown below.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2016\/12\/china-trumps-nasa-with-working-startrek-em-propulsion-drive-testing-now-aboard-the-tiangong-2-space-.html\">http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2016\/12\/china-trumps-na...pace-.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists with the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) claim NASA\u2019s results \u2018re-confirm\u2019 what they\u2019d already achieved, and have plans to implement it in satellites \u2018as quickly as possible.\u2019 China claims they\u2019ve created a working prototype of the \u2018impossible\u2019 reactionless engine \u2013 and they say they\u2019re already testing it in orbit aboard the Tiangong-2 space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1490,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-government","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32835","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56772,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32835\/revisions\/56772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}