NASA’s Johnson Space Center has been successfully tested a electromagnetic (EM) propulsion drive.

NASA Eagleworks – an advanced propulsion research group led by Dr. Harold “Sonny” White at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) – caused a stir in the scientific community last summer by presenting their results on July 28-30, 2014, at the 50th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference in Cleveland, Ohio.

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With this breakthrough research, the scientists at NASA were able to successfully test EM propulsion in a hard vacuum for the very first time, whereas previous tests were channeled in atmospheric conditions.

Defying the Newtonian Law of Physics, the Newton’s Law of Conservation of Momentum has been defied, as the EM drive was prolifically carried out in a closed cavity.

The concept of EM Drive came into picture in 2001 when a Research and Development (R&D) program was started by a small UK company, Satellite Propulsion Research Ltd (SPR),

Electromagnetic microwave cavities provide a way for directly converting electrical energy to thrust without relying on the need to expel any propellant.

British, American and Chinese space programs scientist, have all been investigating procedures to utilize electromagnetic microwaves to enable production of electrical energy which can be directly converted into thrust.

Dr. White clarified that the propellant expulsion is not inevitably needed to balance the change in the momentum of the spacecraft.

“EM Drive’s thrust was due to the Quantum Vacuum behaving like propellant ions behave in a Magneto Hydro Dynamics drive for spacecraft propulsion,” he added.

This space domain breakthrough of travel has unlocked fresh possibilities of using as a fuel source, an alternative; virtual particles of quantum vacuum, thereby, eradicating the burdensome need of propellant usage.

Since 2001, NASA’s Eagleworks propulsion research group has been working to invent a device that can function in such a closed cavity for electrical energy conversion to be put into motion, without fuel requirement.

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