{"id":32940,"date":"2016-12-26T01:47:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T09:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/china-claims-promising-results-in-emdrive-testing-stakes-big-claim-in-space-race"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:55:57","slug":"china-claims-promising-results-in-emdrive-testing-stakes-big-claim-in-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/china-claims-promising-results-in-emdrive-testing-stakes-big-claim-in-space-race","title":{"rendered":"China Claims Promising Results In EmDrive Testing, Stakes Big Claim In \u2018Space Race\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-claims-promising-results-in-emdrive-testing-stakes-big-claim-in-space-race.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could the so-called EmDrive be close to debuting for real, helping spacecraft travel through space and producing thrust without the help of propellant? One month after NASA\u2019s exciting study on the drive that suggested it may work, Chinese researchers have just confirmed that they\u2019ve been running some tests on their own version of the drive in low-Earth orbit, adding some intrigue to what some have called a modern-day \u201cspace race\u201d with the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Digital Trends<\/em>, the EmDrive was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/emdrive-news-rumors\/\">originally designed<\/a> in 2001 by Roger Shawyer as a propulsion system that doesn\u2019t rely on conventional means to operate. That means that it doesn\u2019t make use of fuel to do its work, thus making spacecraft considerably lighter and easier to maneuver, while also potentially reducing costs. Another exciting aspect of the drive is its potential to push spacecraft to unusually high speeds \u2013 as <em>Digital Trends<\/em> described it, that could mean sending humans to the outer reaches of the solar system in mere months, instead of years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-width=\"500\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EMdrive?src=hash\">#EMdrive<\/a> w\/ Carbon 14 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/diamondbattery?src=hash\">#diamondbattery<\/a> could allow our children to explore space using radioactive waste. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cabotinstitute\">@cabotinstitute<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neiltyson\">@neiltyson<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e76rMERCTx\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/e76rMERCTx\">pic.twitter.com\/e76rMERCTx<\/a><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/3823703\/china-emdrive-testing\/\">http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/3823703\/china-emdrive-testing\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could the so-called EmDrive be close to debuting for real, helping spacecraft travel through space and producing thrust without the help of propellant? One month after NASA\u2019s exciting study on the drive that suggested it may work, Chinese researchers have just confirmed that they\u2019ve been running some tests on their own version of the drive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32940","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65507,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32940\/revisions\/65507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}