Is this thing testing the EM Drive?

>>8500005
EM drive isn't working. What's so hard to understand, brainlets?

>>8500005
No. All the needed testing could be done on earth. This is for changing orbits into unpredictable paths and doing sneaky stuff with enemy satellites while they are behind the horizon.

>>8500009
So you just spam every topic with no worthwhile contribution in miserable attempt to coin another stupid made up internet word?

>>8500020
But it changes direction so much for the amount of fuel it has? How is it doing this?

>>8500005

No, in seriousness it's probably doing stress testing of avionics and other things that spacecraft rely on. The air force and it's associated suppliers/contractors don't have a lot of data on how long-duration flights affect equipment.

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>>8500005
>testing the EM Drive?
No, that has already been done on Tiangong 2. Maybe they are testing the Nassikas thruster, the superconducting magnetic equivalent of the emdrive. It needs no energy at all. (U.S. patent No. 8,952,773, February 10, 2015) Pic: When superconduction stops it returns to plumb position (2)

>>8500020
>sneaky stuff with enemy satellites
That's the entertainment part. The real stuff is much more 'earthshaking'.