Project Odyssey

 Concept: 

Project Odyssey was a follow on from project EM. The project was to produce the first Odyssey Class shuttle. The project was the largest space project since the space station.

The Odyssey was a craft designed like a shuttle crossed with a military fighter plane. It is designed to reach the atmosphere using a supercapacitor-powered scramjet engine to reach the atmosphere where the EM drive would engage and accelerate the craft to its extreme rate of speed.

 Results: 

The Odyssey program produced an even more powerful magnetohydrodynamic drive than the initial prototype in Project EM. This allowed project Odyssey to reach around 5V. The supercapacitor scramjet was highly effective as a single stage to orbit vehicle and the Void was immediately bombarded with requests from foreign governments to purchase Odyssey class vehicles - to which Void strongly refused, instead initiating their own space program in partnership with NASA.

The Odyssey craft were immediately set off to explore the solar system, sending huge volumes of data and extreme resolution photographs back to Earth.