Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program
The Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project ( BPPP ), ( dt breakdown or breakthrough propulsion physics project ) was a research and evaluation program of the U.S. space agency NASA, explored the new and unconventional propulsion methods for space travel.
Background
The aim of the project was to examine fundamentally new possibilities for space vehicle propulsion systems and to check about 60 proposals for feasibility. In this case, such as the Quantum Vacuum Forces Project, inter alia, vacuum energy, zero point energy, Casimir effect, warp drive, anti-gravity and faster than light were explored in subprojects.
The Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project took place from 1996 to 2002 at the Glenn Research Center under the NASA Advanced Space Transportation Program and was led by the physicist Marc G. Millis. The total cost of the program amounted to $ 1.6 million. After completion of the project Millis founded the Tau Zero Foundation, a private, non-profit research initiative, which has the further research of new technologies and requirements for interstellar spaceflight itself the task.
Add to Millennium Projects of Lockheed Skunk Works and the Project Greenglow BAE Systems similar research efforts have been made. Also development departments of other defense contractors, such as Boeing Phantom Works, and Northrop Black Widow dealt in the context of secret military research programs, so-called Black Projects or Special Access Programs with drive technologies and new advanced aircraft and space systems, such as Aurora and Ayaks. China and other nations operate as research into alternative non-conventional propulsion systems.
Others
The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts and Advanced Concepts Team of ESA research on the development of advanced concepts and methods for space travel. Also at NASA JSC is in the Advanced Propulsion Physics Laboratory, also informally called "Eagle Works", on new drive technologies, such as the Quantum Vacuum Plasma Thruster (Q- thruster ), research and development. New aspects and opportunities for the development of a warp drive have been investigated and presented at a symposium of the 100 - Year Starship Project in September 2012. NASA Johnson Space Center, and Dakota State University are planning a series of experiments with the White- Juday warp field interferometer, a kind of Michelson -Morley interferometer, whether it might be possible in principle, the metric of spacetime (English: spacetime metric engineering ) to change and make available in the future for driving purposes. At the Technical University of Dresden unconventional approaches to the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics by Martin Tajmar and his team are explored.