---
title: "NASA Emdrive experiments have force measurements while the device is in a hard vacuum"
description: "The Eagleworks team obtained EMDrive experimental force measurements in the torsional pendulum in a hard vacuum (~5.0x10^-6 Torr)."
date: "2015-02-09"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Andreea Popescu"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/andreeathecat"
url: "https://futurism.com/nasa-emdrive-experiments-have-force-measurements-while-the-device-is-in-a-hard-vacuum"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "NASA"
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "transport"
---

# NASA Emdrive experiments have force measurements while the device is in a hard vacuum

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- An EmDrive (also RF resonant cavity thruster) is a proposed spacecraft propulsion device invented by British aerospace engineer Roger J. Shawyer, who develops prototypes at Satellite Propulsion Research Ltd (SPR), the company he created for that purpose in 2000.
- Paul March included their last null-thrust test that ran the RF amp at 10.0Adc while its RF power was being dissipated in a 100W, 50 ohm dummy load positioned in place of the test article on the torque pendulum (TP).
- The near term objective is to complete a Q -thruster breadboard test article that is capable of being shipped to other locations which possess the ability to measure low thrust for independent verification and validation (IV&V) of the technology.