EmDrive for Long Drive in Space!!!

EmDrive Engine Concept

All hail Engineers!!! Yeah, they are truly amazing because they are working on ways to make spaceflight faster and cheaper. Yes, cheaper. Soon, a common person can travel in space and enjoy the adventures of being in zero gravity.

The EmDrive was developed by Roger Shawyer in 2001, it generates thrust by bouncing microwaves around inside a cone-shaped chamber.

The thrust produced by EmDrive is 100 times more than solar sailing spacecraft and also defying the well known Newton's third law of motion  - for every action,  there is an equal and opposite reaction - as there is no exhaust expelled out of the EmDrive system.

The EmDrive requires no propellant as it could generate all the microwaves it needs using solar panels.  However, the study is just a proof of concept and further testing is needed to definitively rule out all possible sources of experimental error.

Picture of the day

NGC 4414: A Flocculent Spiral Galaxy

About the picture:  How much mass do flocculent spirals hide? The featured true color image of flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 4414 was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope to help answer this question. The featured image was augmented with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Flocculent spirals -- galaxies without well-defined spiral arms -- are a quite common form of galaxy, and NGC 4414 is one of the closest. Stars and gas near the visible edge of spiral galaxies orbit the center so fast that the gravity from a large amount of unseen dark matter must be present to hold them together. Understanding the matter and dark matter distribution of NGC 4414 helps humanity calibrate the rest of the galaxy and, by deduction, flocculent spirals in general. Further, calibrating the distance to NGC 4414 helps humanity calibrate the cosmological distance scale of the entire visible universe.

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