WARR Hyperloop wins 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition
This year the defending champion’s pod achieved a top speed of 467 km/h (290 mph), beating their previous year’s record.
WARR Hyperloop, comprised of students of the Technical University of Munich (TUM, Munich, Germany), won the 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition on July 22. This year the defending champion’s pod achieved a top speed of 467 km/h (290 mph), beating their previous year’s record.
Launched in 2015 by SpaceX (Hawthorne, CA, US) founder Elon Musk, the Hyperloop Pod Competition is the concept of a transport system in which a high speed train is to travel at near the speed of sound in a partial vacuum tube. Student teams from around the world are invited to submit their concepts for the pod — the cabin capsule in which passengers are to be transported through the tube.
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