NASA Eagleworks

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Description of Effort Thus Far

A truncated cone EM thruster.

Status

In Progress.

Information

Items 1-4 Located at this post.

  1. The truncated cone EM thruster was restrained by the torsional spring constant of the torsional pendulum used for measurement. The torsional spring constant effectively acts like a spring attached to a wall (the difference being that in the NASA Eagleworks test we have a torsional pendulum where the EM Drive performs a rotation instead of a rectilinear motion)
  2. The truncated cone EM thruster was initially at rest (prior to power input).
  3. A time-varying displacement (effectively due to a rotation around the torsional axis) was recorded and thus a force was calculated by NASA Eagleworks using the known constants of the system.
  4. We have verified this: we modeled NASA Eagleworks torsional pendulum, and furthermore analyzed the data using Fourier Transforms to obtain the Power Spectral Density and the Autocorrelation of the response.

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