Two teams of undergraduates from Rochester Institute of Technology beat out universities, companies and individuals from around the world and had their preliminary designs accepted for the SpaceX ...

Rendering of the winning conceptual design for a Hyperloop pod by a team of MIT students (all images courtesy MIT) In 2013, tech billionaire and “real life Iron Man” Elon Musk first proposed his ...

Gurit, a producer and supplier of advanced composite materials announces that it is a major sponsor of the EPFLoop students team that will be competing in the 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition.

At the 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition, the student team from Germany's TU Munich achieved a top speed of 463 kmph (288 mph) on its prototype pod over a 1.2-kilometer (0.75 mile) test track. The ...

A team of engineering students from the Technical University of Munich won the third SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. Teams were tasked with building a prototype transport pod that would run on a ...

Swisspod Technologies in Pueblo, Colorado, has set a new record with its prototype hyperloop pod, Aerys 1, reaching a speed of 65 miles per hour during its first live test run. Senator Michael Bennet ...

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When Elon Musk first proposed the hyperloop as a transportation alternative, he projected sealed tubes would hurl a pod between San Francisco and Los Angeles in 35 minutes. At the time, Musk’s vision ...