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A project log for EMDrive/satellite

Developing a small fuelless microwave thruster

paul-kocylaPaul Kocyla 12/17/2016 at 18:540 Comments

The "Flying an EMDrive" project has been removed due to maintenance overhead.
This doesn´t mean that the EMDrive will not fly - in fact we got a partnership which will make a launch available soon - stay tuned :)

More details will come later - after we signed the contract

The things changed a little bit now. We had a test session at TU Dresden with Prof. Tajmar and will establish a lasting partnership.

The test results are not to be published yet due to an agreement, but what I can say is that the force was not high enough for a reasonable orbit test. The reasons were thermal issues in the high vacuum which caused the amplifier´s TX output power to degrade.
I made a newdesign with a more efficient amp in an externall box which can be thermally cupled to the scale.

Here´s the setup:

I invested some of the funded money in a good used but affordable test equipment going up to 26GHz and will make a careful redesign for a next version V6.

The paperwork for the satellite launch has been initiated, there´s a lot to do in 2017.

I plan to do video blogging on the process. I am also expecting trolling as usual, so only constructive comments will be answered.

The project page will be cleaned up as many of the first steps to get to the current state are not helpful anymore (learning fails).
If you still need them then feel free to make a backup.

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