China's space agency has officially confirmed that it has been funding research into the controversial space propulsion technology EmDrive, and that it plans to add the technology to Chinese satellites imminently.
The China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), a subsidiary of the Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) and the manufacturer of the Dong Fang Hong satellites, has held a press conference in Beijing explaining the importance of the EmDrive research and summarising what China is doing to move the technology forward.
According to Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of China's Ministry of Science and Technology, China has been carrying out "key technology research" for the last five years into the EmDrive in order to find possible "engineering applications".
Arabian Nights, or a major breakthrough?
The article, entitled "Electromagnetic drive: Arabian Nights or a major breakthrough", traces the history of the EmDrive controversy and highlights the recent publication of the Nasa Eagleworks EmDrive paper in the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power in November.
The article also mentions that Roger Shawyer's theories about the EmDrive were not taken seriously until Professor Yang Juan of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU) in Xi'an, China began researching the topic in 2008.
"National research institutions in recent years have carried out a series of long-term, repeated tests on the EmDrive. NASA's published test results can be said to re-confirm the technology," Dr Chen Yue, head of the communication satellite division at the China Academy of Space Technology (Cast) said at the press conference.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/emdrive-chinese-space-agency-put-controversial-tech-onto-satellites-soon-possible-1596328
>>92241
This really could be a big breakthrough if it isn't just propaganda. I wish the Chinamen well on this one.
>>92241
Space Race 2.0
>>92241
China is the empire of junk science.
Why aren't Americans interested, again? Is it arrogance, disbelief, or corporate interests holding research and funding back?
>>92379
>"space spending is wasted spending"
>"you can't make money on space"
>"government can't do anything right"
>"we should slash NASA's budget again, we need to pay for the F-35/entitlements/infrastructure/tax cuts"
>>92379
Scientists are hubristic and instead of investigating why the thing SEEMS to be breaking the laws of momentum, they are outright dismissing it as "fake news."
>>92414
We're talking about absolutely minuscule thrust. This same research has been carried out by multiple sources and the few times some statistically significant results make their presence, correcting for potential sources of error has been enough to dispel any possibility that it works.
China is going to have to demonstrate what they've done differently or it's going to require independent verification from multiple sources because historical precedent exists by which experimentation on the technology have produced notoriously unreliable data.
>>92379
If we had it figured Wed just send it to China to be made anyway.
>>92388
Source? I thought scientists have so far been unable to explain away the anomalous thrust.
>China
>Tech/Scence breakthrough
Be wary of anything coming out of China, they have a tendency to commit academic fraud to save face.
They're gonna be quite disappointed because the emdrive isn't real lol
But they're welcome to try
>>92414
faggots on the internet are not scientists