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Assuming the EM drive survives the launch into space and works there, would it ever be feasable?
I did some back-of-the-envelope calculations, and assuming the drive weighs 2kg you would get a total acceleration of 0.0001 m/s^2 using solar panels at 1 AU from the sun, and the acceleration issue only gets worse if you go closer because of the increased amount of energy needed to change the orbit
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>>8487951
This is assuming 1kW at a ratio of 1m^2/1kg/300W
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If it actually works the next step would be to optimize it. I'm sure we could squeeze out some more thrust per watt
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What about fucking plutonium reactor on it?
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>>8487951
>change the orbit
more like keep the orbit
until now the ISS needs an external bump for that
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>>8487993
What the fuck my keyboard didn't work
As i was going to say, if it's even enough for stationkeeping, the powerplant would need to be immense
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>>8488019
You misread the data, its 1 mN/kW
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>>8487951
The memedrive is already as good as many ion engines.
So yes, it would be useful.
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