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[Baroun Tardis]

Quantum drive that draws 'limitless power' from Sun will fly to orbit this year

IVO Ltd. believes its new 'Quantum Drive' defies the laws of motion, and it aims to put it to the test by sending it to orbit on a SpaceX rocket.

interestingengineering.com

52 millinewtons per watt....
See what happens

 

[mike wightman]

EM drive take 2 - it is unlikely to work.

 

[Baroun Tardis]

EM drive take 2 - it is unlikely to work.

It's like lottery tickets...
Unlikely.
But the payoff is nice.

 

[kilemall]

It's like lottery tickets...
Unlikely.
But the payoff is nice.

Ya but a 10 million minimum ticket price..

 

[Spinward Flow]

Ya but a 10 million minimum ticket price..

For innovations in space technology, 10 million is a bargain price!

 

[Baroun Tardis]

For innovations in space technology, 10 million is a bargain price!

Especially when it's not me coming up with the money

 

[Commander Truestar]

Anyone wanna set up a betting pool where parts surviving re-entry will land after it fails?

hehehehe

 

[atpollard]

Anyone wanna set up a betting pool where parts surviving re-entry will land after it fails?

hehehehe

I would like the Boston-Atlanta Urban Corridor … we’ve yet to have a crash in a major population center.

 

[whartung]

Anyone wanna set up a betting pool where parts surviving re-entry will land after it fails?

This is an interesting little point about orbital traffic control.

I would imagine that some worlds, notably more densely populated ones, would have rather strict orbit entry, selection, and maintenance rules simply to account for the potential problem of malfunctioning starships falling out of sky in flaming wreckage and raining down on an elementary school at recess, or some other horror.

I know, for example, that down in San Diego there's a very nice, scenic mesa, barren of housing. You'd think by now it would be filled with luxury homes. But the reason its clear is because its in line with the end of the Miramar Marine Air Station. When the jets take off, that's where they fly over, and it's empty Just In Case.

I don't know how you would manage it (it's an orbit), but I can see it having to be taken into consideration with the traffic volume some of these large worlds could have.

 

[kilemall]

This is an interesting little point about orbital traffic control.

I would imagine that some worlds, notably more densely populated ones, would have rather strict orbit entry, selection, and maintenance rules simply to account for the potential problem of malfunctioning starships falling out of sky in flaming wreckage and raining down on an elementary school at recess, or some other horror.

I know, for example, that down in San Diego there's a very nice, scenic mesa, barren of housing. You'd think by now it would be filled with luxury homes. But the reason its clear is because its in line with the end of the Miramar Marine Air Station. When the jets take off, that's where they fly over, and it's empty Just In Case.

I don't know how you would manage it (it's an orbit), but I can see it having to be taken into consideration with the traffic volume some of these large worlds could have.

That’s why I think many downports would be coastal, so you have an ocean to crash into.

 

[Condottiere]

Desert.

 

[Grav_Moped]

I know, for example, that down in San Diego there's a very nice, scenic mesa, barren of housing

There's an abandoned and fenced-off street grid that used to be a tract of houses between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and the shore at Dockweiler Beach, too. Some homes' foundations are still there.