Tu delft students win Hyperloop Pod Competition – Look on news

6 hours 2 min ago Update: 30-01-2017 8:49

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The discharge was great at the Award Ceremony of SpaceX’s Hyperloop Pod Competition. With great interest, won students of the TU Delft, the contest in Los Angeles. Challenged by Elon Musk built 27 teams from around the world in the past year 'pods' for the futuristic transportconcept Hyperloop, in which people and goods with high speed through tubes travel.

Last weekend, they had their pods to the test in a 1.2 km long tube in addition to the field of SpaceX in Los Angeles. "This was exactly the price where we went, we tried to all the details to pay attention, and a pod so that you could scale up," says team captain Tim Houter. "And that effort is now rewarded, fantastic". Also got the Delft Hyperloop Team also won the Award for the best construction and design. Students of the University of Munich won the other prize for the highest average speed

SpaceX

Last weekend, fought the Delft Hyperloop team with 26 other teams to win the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. They were allowed to try as much speed as possible to achieve in the extraction tube of 1.2 kilometers of the headquarters of the space in Hawthorne, Los Angeles. A jury evaluated the ‘pods’ -made half-scale – at o.a. reliability, design, and scalability. Finally won the Delft team in the overall standings.

Hyperloop Pod Competition

The Hyperloop Pod Competition is set up by Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors. Musk opened the final personally, and visited the stand of the Delft team. With the league-he wants the development of a revolutionary form of fast and energy-efficient transport to encourage, where people and goods with a speed of 1,200 kilometers per hour through tubes containing a very low pressure is traveling. Challenged by Musk designed, built and tested student teams all over the world hyperloop-pods.

Lightweight

The design of the tu Delft students is very light: through the use of the light and strong carbon fiber weighs the Delft pod of about 4.5 metres long and 1 metre high and only 149 pounds. With the help of magnets floats the Delft pod above the runway, so there is very little energy lost. During the match layers the speeds around 90 km/h. In a longer tube would be the Delft prototype speeds up to 1,200 km per hour.