this thing is AMAZING…
Watch this test which may be used in future space missions by NASA. In 2015, NASA has made a lot of internet and magazine headlines with talks and tests of new kinds of propulsion systems. One in particular that they tested you may have seen. it is called an EM Drive propulsion successfully which is a “microwave” based system. And don’t don’t use it to make popcorn 😉
Here is an intro on the XRS-2200:
This engine was designed to be modular and was going to power the long since cancelled X-33 Venture Star. I knew I had seen a video of this before but I couldn’t find it anywhere. Found it finally through a dead hotlink to a Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) news release still on their server but it doesn’t turn up under any Google or NASA site searches for Aerospike. This video is property of NASA so if they request it to be removed I will do so. It was filmed in late 2000 or early 2001 and I believe this is 80% of max thrust.
Let’s check out the test in the video on page 2
Monte Carpenter
Looks like it works, but I am not impressed. Still using an exhaustable fuel supply and a great deal of energy to ignite it. Nasa should be beyond that. They should be using helium 3. Just a wasteful.
Well helium 3 for a generator to power an electromagnetic pulse drive.
That’s a lot of fumes from a microwave device. Now lies are spreading. Weird. Besides, we all know that NASA already used Cathode drives. They only work in the vacuum of space. What a load of croc.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FcW9kUUTfxY
You should go work for NASA
Aye and if my grandmaw had wheels she be a wagon
Mike Niutei Never again for someone in anyway affiliated with the government.
Stephen Rother You should move to Canada
That smoke plume out of the side is unreal. Multiple times the size of the whole structure.
Mike Niutei. You should stop trusting a government who sends innocent folk like yourself to go fight a war that was created just to gain profit for bankers and the politicians they’re in bed with.
That’s pretty bad$#%&!@* I’m thinking about putting one on my F250!
This is several years old.
This is from 2000 or 2001
Neat but that’s crap compared to what they are hiding
Pretty awesome!!
This is old as f**k
The tech is from the 80s, possibly earlier.
Get with the times NASA!!!
No one saw the EM drive?
Hell ya, artist rendering of the engine. Just like everything else in the universe. I want that job.
Mike Niutei you should move somewhere without Internet!
This is NOT a so-called EM Drive propulsion system.
There is virtually no Helium 3 on Earth.
Stacy Fisher we are talking about nasa here. The moon is full of it.
well that’s certainly one way to toast a marshmallow.
good ol bottle rocket technology, bet the force of gravity has em down.
There is the issue of the thrust requirement, current ion drives and EM drive designs simply do not have the thrust to get into orbit. Propellant based systems are currently the most efficient way to get packages off-world.
When an ion or EM drive reaches 900 kN of thrust without sterilizing the launch zone we may be able to stop using hydrogen-oxygen engines, but I think getting a space elevator up is just about as likely within the next 50 years.
True but if they use rockets to get out of the atmosphere. Then another option to explore that would be ideal. I propose using the rocket fuselage that is normally space junk as modules for space stations in space or on the moon ect. Blow a polymer tube liner in there like they would do in large pipes or sewers. Hook them together with space shuttle arm/ leave shuttle up there. Could just launch multiple rockets to the moon with the supplies to assemble on one.
This shitz old.
Lame
Bit will it blend?
How’s that ion-engine coming NASA? My tax dollars putting to good use? Frankly, I’d rather humans be quarantined to Earth as to not interfere with, damage, kill, or even slightly threaten extraterrestrial life in extra-solar systems (I’m not happy about this solar sail idea to get us quickly to Proxima Centauri), but if it’s going to happen, we might want to take a few pages out of the Sci-Fi textbooks, even if only to test the ideas and/or improve upon them.
ThiThis is an old scraped project
More than likely less than a penny of yours per year goes to NASA. Unless you’re making well over 100k per year…
Future of space missions?
According to the article this video is 15 years old…
Doesn’t seem like they were in a hurry to develop, or use, it.
Every time I go on your website I am bombarded with advertisement.
I don’t want to spend a pica-penny if the tech is still stagnant, or barely improved. We need brand new technology not based on fossil fuels.
It’s also the world’s badest tanning bed, melt your face of
Gerard Frank Schafhautle Not your decision my friend, thank goodness others are more rational.
A. I know. B. 99% of the human race is irrational to the point of everything else going through an artificial (man-made) extinction event. C. I hope if we do go somewhere else that we don’t bring livestock, crops, and corals/fertlizers foreign to the planet, let alone diseases…Who knows; we may end up decimating the local life to replace it with our own. That would make us an “invasive species,” not just “non-native,” something we are constantly attempting to wipe out here (hypocritical existance, also irrational?). D. To be against Earthly quarantine and risk contaminating foreign worlds is against having any value in ecosystems, and penciling in the idea that it’s okay to wipe out all life humans deem unnecessary to us, which goes against not only morality/ethics, but furthers a theory that humans are a species by definition “more important” than all others we come across. We are$#%&!@*sapiens sapiens, humankind; another species of organism like the rest. I’m not saying we should all die now…such an idea is of course wrong. But to squander all life to spare our one species? I guess you missed the movie Independence Day. Obviously we won’t be “planet hopping” on a regular basis (hopefully), but why ruin Planet-B before fixing Planet-A? It’s not only irrational to deem humanity as Species-Alpha, but irresponsible to “make a new mess before cleaning up the first.” What’s irrational about fixing HERE before going THERE? After all, we are the ones who made the mess, it should be us the clean it up. Ecology is a science like any/every other. To set aside a naturally occurring science for one requiring artificial means to practice (Astronomy can be observed from here naturally, but not entered into) is, again, irrational. We were a species before a high intelligence, and we were not always as destructive, especially not by choice (and an irrational one at that).
I agree to this on so many levels…
looks like something from the first Alien movie….
This site can go back to the hell from whence it came.
I thought the moon was the only place you could even get helium 3?
I think we have..um..maybe a few more years to work out those problems. There are a few more baby steps to complete before we start contemplating interstellar travel. So you can cancel the alarms.
If you have the technology to harvest the helium 3 and develop the thruster within the confines of NASA’s budget, I’m sure they’d love to hear your pitch.
Build a station there on the moon first with the steps I set out. One thing at a time. Nothing happens overnight. Yes using space garbage already paid for should not only fall within thiers extravagant budget. But should decrease costs Of doing such a thing significantly.
We have time, but biologically/ethically/historically; it won’t matter.
That’s a Linear Aerospike combustion engine and it’s intended vehicle program was canceled years ago.
wake up numb nutts this is old news