In article ,
says...

If you take an EMdrive cavity and measure the force with a spring
you have an anomaly drive. If you take the cavity and rotate it
180 degrees and still get the same force vector then the cavity
effect is in question.

The report in engadger appears to be cable force speculation as
related to their unstated cable cavity configurations.

Engadget isn't that great of a site for space news, IMHO. Here's a
better article at Ars Technica:

SHIELDING?IMPORTANT, MMKAY? ?
NASA?s EM-drive is a magnetic WTF-thruster
Test reveals that the magic space unicorns pushing the EM-drive
are magnetic fields.
CHRIS LEE - 5/21/2018, 12:34 PM.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018...is-a-magnetic-
wtf-thruster/

The best quote from above is:

"The best part is that the results are the same when the
attenuator is put into the circuit. In this case, there is
basically no radiation in the microwave cavity, yet the
WTF-thruster thrusts on."

So, the German researchers have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that
the EM cavity has *nothing* to do with the "thrust" since they get the
same "thrust" when replacing the EM cavity with an auttenuator (I'm
guessing essentially a resistor).

This is why the title of the article calls it a "magnetic WTF-thruster".

Jeff
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