SpaceX announce Hyperloop high-speed travel pod design contest

Posted on 17 Jun 2015 by Matthew Buckley

Rocket and spacecraft company SpaceX is holding a competition to design and build pods for the company’s high-speed travel 'Hyperloop'.

The ‘Hyperloop’ is a concept that SpaceX’s founder Elon Musk outlined in a white paper in 2013. It is a transport system in which a pod containing passengers travels at up to 750mph (1207.5km/h) through a tube from Los Angeles to San Francisco and vice versa. Traditionally, if an object has to travel through a non-vacuum…

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