New Russian reactionless spacecraft engine

On Feb 18, 9:12*am, Pat Flannery wrote:


"The movement takes place as a liquid or solid body moves on a
tornado-shaped trajectory."

EmDrive of some sort?:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive


Well, they describe it as a magnetism-based perpetual motion machine:
http://english.pravda.ru/science/tec...n_scientists-0
.. Not encouraging, to say the least.

I guess it's vaguely possible that they've come up with a way to react
against the earth's magnetic field for other than attitude control,
but I wouldn't put any money on it. Anyway, historical orbital
elements are available for the satellite (NORAD 32953) on Space Track,
so it should be possible to check to see if it's done any unusual
maneuvering.