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by Carl White
Thu Dec 21, 2023 1:56 am
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 602493

Re: EM Drive

Eh? According to this "Jon Beam, Chief Operating Officer, praised the Mission Operations team for their exceptional work and agility, advancing ahead of schedule toward completing primary mission objectives by year's end ." https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=60008.0 There are actuall...
by Carl White
Tue Dec 19, 2023 11:59 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 602493

Re: EM Drive

NORAD orbit data for Barry-1. Regularly updated.

https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/gr ... ATNR=58338
by Carl White
Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:30 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 602493

Re: EM Drive

How much would they need just to maintain orbit? Taken from one of Mike McCulloch's tweets:

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If it starts maintaining average altitude or rising, that's a pretty strong indication.
by Carl White
Sat Dec 16, 2023 10:39 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Age of Miracles by Packy McCormick on fusion
Replies: 1
Views: 579

Re: Age of Miracles by Packy McCormick on fusion

They call Commonwealth Fusion Systems "the 800-pound gorilla in fusion". "It's a giant". "It's the safest bet".
by Carl White
Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:50 am
Forum: News
Topic: Helicity Space
Replies: 12
Views: 4679

Re: Helicity Space

"Helicity Space raises $5 million for fusion engine development" https://spacenews.com/helicity-space-raises-5-million-for-fusion-engine-development/ SAN FRANCISCO — Helicity Space, a California startup developing fusion engines for spaceflight, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round announce...
by Carl White
Sat Dec 02, 2023 4:40 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 602493

Re: EM Drive

Can't locate the reference, but I remember the CEO stating that they wouldn't announce any results for two to six months after launch.
by Carl White
Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:25 pm
Forum: News
Topic: SpaceX News
Replies: 2324
Views: 1155360

Re: SpaceX News

I read somewhere that the grid fins actually could play a role in flipping the first stage, via interaction with the engine exhaust of Starship during the hot-staging.
by Carl White
Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:19 am
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 660
Views: 104539

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

From Twitter: First FRC in our Polaris Formation test! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GACW9TVbYAAiOU3?format=jpg&name=small What an awesome photo of our deuterium plasma injector testing! This is the first at this scale of FRC to be made by fully semiconductor switching – think billions of pulses (deca...
by Carl White
Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:10 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 660
Views: 104539

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

Having worked in heavy industry, I've seen things much bigger than 3m transported by road. Let's consider too, the current Helion facility won't be the only production facility, if for no other reason than there's a much larger manufacturing base on the other side of the Rockies from them, with far...
by Carl White
Mon Nov 13, 2023 12:31 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 602493

Re: EM Drive

A little weird, I do not see the need to collect a "baseline of orbital data" if you have 45mN of thrust with a single W of consumption as claimed. They could simply switch them on and check if the orbit rises or not over one or more days. That is unless there is more fundamental operational detail...
by Carl White
Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:34 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 602493

Re: EM Drive

SpaceX Transporter 9 launched today, carrying Rogue Space System''s Barry-1 which houses two of Ivo Ltd's Quantum Drives. Richard Mansell, CEO of IVO, tweeted: We have several weeks of LEOP before we can start our testing. Don't expect any testing until December sometime. Collecting a baseline of or...
by Carl White
Sat Oct 28, 2023 9:37 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 660
Views: 104539

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

From Twitter: Testing continues! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9dUWuybsAAOk_O?format=jpg&name=small Yeah! Working through shakedown tests always leads to a few fun challenges. Early we had some issues with control system data readback, but now we are back up and running, getting to full magnetic fiel...
by Carl White
Sun Sep 03, 2023 7:29 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 660
Views: 104539

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

I've written a few long, detailed answers to a few people objections and doubts, that took me some time to compose to my satisfaction, and they are just hidden to everyone. :roll: YouTube apparently allows content posters to "hide users", meaning they can select users to make their comments invisib...
by Carl White
Sun Aug 06, 2023 6:54 am
Forum: News
Topic: Diamonds turn nuclear waste into nuclear batteries
Replies: 22
Views: 20180

Re: Diamonds turn nuclear waste into nuclear batteries

https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/618685095/nano-diamond-battery-ndb-launches-crowdfunding-offering-to-revolutionize-the-energy-industry NDB Inc., a cutting-edge power company, is proud to announce the launch of a crowdfunding offering to bring its innovative Nano Diamond Battery technology to consume...
by Carl White
Thu Aug 03, 2023 10:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: LK-99
Replies: 3
Views: 663

Re: LK-99

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/super ... ate-claims

"16 Teams Race to Validate Superconductor Breakthrough, Find Mixed Results"

There's a nice table summarizing them.