EmDrive

ISBN-13: 9781032599007 / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str.

UK) Shawyer Roger (Satellite Propulsion Research Ltd.

Opis

EmDrive provides a comprehensive description of the theoretical background to this emerging technology. It includes the derivation of essential equations, provides thruster design details, and describes the manufacture and methods of testing that would enable the work to be correctly reproduced in the appropriate research facilities.

Spis treści

1. The Beginning.  2. The Basic Theory.  3. The Experimental Engine.  4. Experimental proof.  5. Demonstrator Engine.  6. “And yet it moves.”.  7. The Flight Thruster.  8. Flight Thruster Performance Tests.  9. The Superconducting Thruster.  10. The Trouble with Acceleration.  11. The First Flights.  12. Deep Space Missions.  13. A Heavy Launch Vehicle.  14. A Personal Spaceplane.  15. The Technology of Hope.

O autorze

Roger Shawyer is a British Chartered Electrical Engineer with 50 years of experience in the Space and Defence industries. He is the inventor of the EmDrive propulsion technology, and for the last 21 years, he has been the director of a small R&D company, Satellite Propulsion Research Ltd. (SPR). In 1981, Roger moved into the Space Industry, taking up a position as a Principal Engineer with Marconi Space and Defence Systems Ltd. He gained extensive project management experience as the Payload Project Manager on four Eutelsat, high-power TV Broadcast Satellites. Another major programme was the Galileo European navigation satellite system, for which Roger was Technical Manager, responsible for the early design and development of the signal structure and payload equipment. In 2001, Roger left to set up SPR Ltd. and carry out initial EmDrive Research with 5 years of UK government funding. In 2008, Roger was elected a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.