IVO Ltd. to Launch Quantum Drive Pure Electric Satellite Thruster into Orbit

IVO Ltd. to Launch Quantum Drive Pure Electric Satellite Thruster into Orbit  North Dakota-based company IVO Ltd., the pioneer of capacitive based technologies, announced its pure electric thruster for satellites, the IVO Quantum Drive, will be aboard SpaceX Transporter 8. Hosted by IVO’s partner, Rogue Space Systems, the Quantum Drive-powered satellite will begin its journey to low earth orbit on June 10th, 2023.

IVO Ltd officially announces its first mission to the final frontier (YouTube presentation)

This system will be sent to low Earth orbit (LEO) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the rideshare mission Transporter 8.

Founded in 2017 by Richard Mansell, Ken Mansell, Daniel Telehey, and Matthew Silbernagel, IVO has focused on developing wireless energy transmission solutions using a technology known as Capacitive Based Aerial Transmission.

In 2021 Richard Mansell discovered pure electric thrust is viable for spacecraft through a combination of mathematics and empirical test data.

The IVO Quantum Drive is the world’s first commercially viable and available pure electric propulsion technology to achieve legitimacy via thermal vacuum testing. The thruster technology provides unmatched efficiency, achieving up to 52 mN of thrust from a single watt with the ability to stack units to multiply thrust output. Thrusters can be mounted in any orientation enabling up to 6 degrees of freedom. IVO Ltd. worked with E-Labs of Fredericksburg, VA to validate the thruster

under the rigorous conditions it will see in space.

Naturally, the news of this test and the company’s claims have been met with considerable scepticism by many astrophysicists. For instance Andrew Higgins, an associate professor at McGill University in 2018 published a paper titled “Reconciling a Reactionless Propulsive Drive with the First Law of Thermodynamics,” where he demonstrated that an electromagnetic drive must work as “photon rockets

” so that can generate no more than 3.33 µN/kW of thrust. It is trivial to show that otherwise such a reactionless drive could be converted into a perpetual motion machine of the first kind. See also:

• An Alternative Theory of Inertia will Get Tested in Space
• New all-electric thruster draws "limitless power from the Sun"
• Propellant-less propulsion from quantised inertia, Thrust from symmetric capacitors using quantised inertia.
• On the propulsive force developed by asymmetric capacitors in a vacuum
• Rudolf G. Zinsser and W. Peschka: Mechanical Energy from Gravitational Anisotropy
• Electrostatic accelerated electrons within symmetric capacitors during field emission condition events exert bidirectional propellant-less thrust

According to physicist McCulloch, the IVO setup is based on potential difference of 5kV between the plates of a capacitor, and separate them by about 10 micron with a dielectric. You then allow electrons to quantum tunnel across the gap at a very low current (1 µA) but at a massive acceleration. His theory of Quantised inertia says that they will see a field of nice hot Unruh radiation everywhere, except between the capacitor plates, as for the old Casimir effect. There will be then a quantum void between the plates that will pull the electrons out of the cathode faster than expected and this will add momentum to the system which will thrust towards the anode. A thrust from ‘nothing’. As you can see in the theory paper, QI theory predicts the results of Becker and Bhatt and Mansell exactly, even the changes as you vary the plate separation.

In dense aether model the theories allowing quantitative predictions are often based on opposite/dual perspective than theories explaining them logically (think of epicycle model of solar system). So that the underlying physical mechanism can be actually less abstract: the electrons squashed by electric field and attracted to electrode are constrained in motion along spatial dimensions, so that they're moving along temporal dimension for to preserve ZPE energy by uncertainty principle and they interact strongly with vacuum fluctuations during it. They essentially change into a Dirac fermions exhibiting Zwitterbegung

known from superconductors, graphene and topological insulators. Similar effect can be modelled with plates at vibrating water surface: they change into a paddles capable to interact with water surface ripples.

So that electrons accelerated by electric field between capacitor plates exert force to vacuum fluctuations and they literally push them in opposite direction, resulting into a reactive force. Once the electron reaches the opposite electrode, it gets abruptly braked, which should result in force in opposite direction cancelling the effect. But such an electron isn't subject of electric field anymore, it thus doesn't behave as a Dirac fermion anymore and the effect isn't fully cancelled. From this theory follows, the asymmetric capacitors should have this effect enhanced even more, which is why it had been observed on them first in 1928 already (Biefeld-Brown lifter effect validated by NASA's NSSTC LEEIF facility in 2003 (check LaViolette's book for more details).