Maybe some remind about EmDrive strange engine, using no fuel to eject.
I have followed that fringe research since few years with skepticism but hope on my Scoop.it .
The inventor, Roger Shawyer, created a company and move to China to work with Ms Yang Juan in the Chinese school of Astronautics.
The chinese team have made test that looked good, and described them in a nice FAQ and Wired covered that success.
There was few articles but it called for few reaction .
Anyway Shawyer still published. last year he published for IAC13 : THE DYNAMIC OPERATION OF A HIGH Q EMDRIVE MICROWAVE THRUSTER, and he is planned for IAC2014 with a paper entitled "Second Generation EmDrive Propulsion Applied to SSTO Launcher and Interstellar Probe" at Toronto in September 2014.
I started to be skeptical seeing nothing better than paper...
An then today Wired publish that article : Nasa validates 'impossible' space drive.
That simply explain that a US scientist, Guido Fetta, has built a similar thruster, asked Nasa to test it out. The test results, are positive, and ther were presented on 50th JPC in Cleveland yesterday.
NASA thus confirm with that article: Anomalous Thrust Production from an RF Test Device Measured on a Low-Thrust Torsion Pendulum
Guido Fetta have a company "Canae LLC" proposing this Q-Drive alias "Canae Drive"
The theory is disputed, and they prefer to consider that it is simply reaction against the virtual particle of crowed void, and even more wisely prefer to avoid theory and consider evidences. I sign too on that phenomenological approach.
If in the same year we have EmDrive/QDrive and LENR, that would be "la fête du slip" for space probes and Mars travel.