The American company IVO was created a few years ago due to a boom in wireless power transmission, and their work is about to reach a milestone. The company will already test the electric propulsion system it has developed in space in the summer of 2023. This technology is planned to be used in low-Earth orbiting satellites in the future.
According to the company, the development, called Quantum Drive, is more efficient than conventional systems and can achieve thrust of up to 52 millinatons with the help of one watt of electricity. Meanwhile, the system provides energy from a combination of on-board energy storage and continuously collected solar energy.
the the universe today At the same time, he points out, this is a huge improvement over ion engines that operate on the principle of the Hall effect. These devices can exert 25 to 250 millinetons of thrust, but are less energy efficient (65 to 80 percent) and require more power—usually 1 to 7 kilowatts. Compared to this, the weight of the IVO Quantum Drive, which is around 300g, is practically insignificant compared to the 200kg Ion Drive.
According to the company, with the solution, almost unlimited energy can be extracted from the sun. (The principle of quantum engine operation is considered more invalid by physicists than is accepted. valid argument According to him, it cannot work because it violates the first law of thermodynamics, the principle of conservation of energy.)
