Valery Menshikov

Valery Menshikov (Меньшиков Валерий Александрович), member of RAEN, soviet veteran, leader of the Russian national program of the development of the inertioids, id est, trusters without loss a mass ("движитель без расхода рабочего тела"). The most famous among them is Gravitsapa.

Menshikov is director of the A.A.Maximov Space Systems Research Institute, which is branch of FSUE Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, Russia.

Menshikov become famous after to launch the satellite Yubileiny with the perpetual motion machine Gravitsapa no board . Menshikov claims that the device moves the satelite from one orbit to another with the help of the engine, which discharges no reaction mass.. The Russian newpapers advertised this gravitsapa as a top achievement of the Russian science and technology . Such projects refer to a huge budget .

Several specialists indicated , that the gravitsapa and other support-less propulseds developed in the A.A.Maximov Space Systems Research Institute and the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center are just fraud, but up to year 2011, from the Russian state authorities, were performed no actions with respect to Menshikov nor with respect to the FSUE Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, nor to A.A.Maximov Space Systems Research Institute.