The Interstellar travel might not only be a dream but with new technology, it can be a reality. A study conducted last year by NASA scientists has become the latest and by far the highest profile, piece of evidence in favour of a seemingly impossible space thruster design that’s been evoking worldwide scepticism for some time now. The successful test of CANNAE DRIVE.
We all have heard about the EMDRIVE propulsion system but as it sounds so fascinating and hi-tech it does not prove itself in NASA test. But the scientist working on this project come up with a new solution providing a self-fuel propulsion system called as “Cannae drive”. The Cannae Drive (formerly Q-drive) an engine designed to generate propulsion from a resonant cavity without propellant, is another implementation of EMDRIVE. Its cavity is asymmetric, but relatively flat rather than a truncated cone as in EMDRIVE. It was designed by Fetta in 2006 and has been promoted within the US through his company, Cannae LLC, since 2011.
In 2016, Fetta announced plans to launch a CubeSat satellite containing a version of the Cannae Drive, which they would run for 6 months to observe how it functions in space. At first, the NASA didn’t believe in this prototype but after testing it and analysing the result they finally found it working using the phrase for this engine as “anomalous thrust device.” The team confirmed that the device produces thrust by using electricity, and nothing else. Supporters call them microwave thrusters or quantum vacuum plasma thrusters (QVPT), the NASA team recorded a reliable thrust between 30 and 50 micro-Newtons, less than a thousandth of the output of some relatively low-powered ion thrusters in use today. Still, the ion thrusters require fuel to operate, and the original QVPT inventor claims the version." NASA tested is flawed, leading them to collect far lower thrust readings than his original can provide". If confirmed, the practical upshot of this technology would be amazing. Solar panels could provide the electricity needed to keep the thruster working, meaning that propulsion would be low-thrust and long-term with virtually no associated cost. This would not only help the satellite running but can make interstellar travel much easier. Scientist are also predicting that a beefed-up version of the QVPT could reach Proxima Centauri in about 30 years (assuming the concept actually works at all).
. Proxima Centauri, or Alpha Centauri C, is a red dwarf, a small low-mass star, about 4.25 light-years from the Sun in the constellation of Centaurus. well, it seems something out of science fiction While NASA might not want to talk about it, though, for us, it’s worth discussing just how this drive’s creators hypothesize the thruster works. The central insight here is that something called "quantum vacuum fluctuations" will occasionally spontaneously create particles all throughout the vacuum of space and that these short-lived particles can be put to useful work. Thus, this thruster actually does use fuel — it just finds and uses that fuel as it goes. The thruster essentially turns these virtual particles into a plasma and expels them out the back of the ship, much like a conventional fuel source. The quantum fuel, though, spontaneously appears inside the thruster’s reaction area without even the need for collection or injection hardware. The prototype is being successfully tested but after a few upgrades, it is most likely seem that NASA would make the interstellar travelling a reality and we would become voyager across the stars.
