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It's official: NASA's peer-reviewed EM Drive paper has finally been published
 
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Hazard Wrote:But not for humans. Isp is great, thrust? Not so much. It'd take too long to get going.
If it's possible to install one as a secondary drive, then we wouldn't need to coast from point to point in Hohmann transfer orbits any more.

Of course, that requires the primary drive having the capability to apply sufficient delta-v to the craft and the added mass of the secondary drive.
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