INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
WARR Hyperloop has done it again
The engineering students from the Technical University of Munich won SpaceX hyperloop pod competition on Sunday for the third time.
This
year, WARR Hyperloop pulled off the win when their self-propelled pod reached a top speed of more than 290 miles per hour, a new record for
The pod traveled 50% faster than WARR Hyperloop winning entry in the previous SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition held in August 2017
In the first competition, held in January 2017, WARR winning pod traveled just 58 mph
That progress.
The event was hosted, as it has since the beginning, by SpaceX and its founder Elon Musk at the company Hawthorne,
The Boring Company, another Musk business pursuit, provided additional support this year.
The competition this year illustrates the
evolution and advancements in hyperloop technology
For instance, in theprevious two Hyperloop Pod competitions, student teams had the option of accelerating
their pod down the test track with
support from a SpaceX-made vehicle called a &pusher.& This year,all pods had to be self-propelled
SpaceX also added another sub-competition focused on levitationtechnology
In this challengethe pods had to maintain alignment with the test track while hovering above it for an extended period of time.
We're
excited to announce that our team WARR Hyperloop is the winner of the 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition!!!!!
We managed to go almost 50%
faster than last year, reaching a final speed of 467 km/h (290 mph)!
We'd like to sincerely thank all our sponsors!
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— WARR Hyperloop (@WARR_Hyperloop) July 23, 2018
WARR Hyperloop was one of three teams to make it to the
finals—a 1.25-kilometer Hyperloop test track adjacent to SpaceX headquarters
Delft University from the Netherlands and EPFLoop of Switzerland also made it to the finals
The competition accepted 20 student teams from more than 40 countries to showcase their pods at SpaceX third Hyperloop Pod
Competition.
Student teams had to demonstrate their pod ability to pass key tests and safety inspections
Each team pod also had to undergo testinginside a 26-foot long vacuum chamber and along a 150-foot long external test track built by
SpaceX.
SpaceX isn&t working on or connected to any of the startups currently pursuing Hyperloop technology
But Musk is still involved in supporting the idea ofa system of reduced-pressure tubes that would theoretically hurtle people and packages
long distances at super speeds that he proposed in a nearly 60-page public white paper back in 2013.
