 In December 2016, Yue Chen told a reporter at China's "Science and Technology Daily" that his team was testing an EmDrive in orbit, and that they had been funding research in the area for five years.Chen noted that their prototype's thrust was at the "micronewton to millinewton level", which would have to be scaled up to at least 100–1000 millinewtons for a chance of conclusive experimental results.Despite this, he said his goal was to complete validation of the drive, and then to make such technology available in the field of satellite engineering "as quickly as possible".