SpaceX plans to hold a competition to design the passenger capsules Hyperloop

The project to create a high-speed traffic artery Hyperloop becoming real. Recently the company SpaceX has announced plans to establish a test site Hyperloop (total length of one mile). The company also plans to hold a competition for the best design of the passenger capsule.

Conditions of the competition выложены. The company's website. Here, in particular, it said that the competition is open to any company or group that can design and build a passenger capsule. At the same time, and students can participate. To the participants have not spent too much money, a capsule is proposed to construct a scale of 1: 2 (ie, the prototype will be half the size of the original).



The test plot will also be smaller than the transport channel Hyperloop. The length of the pipeline will be 1, 6 km and the diameter of the "tube" - 1.2-1, 5 meters. Has such a test site will be near the office SpaceX in California. Now the company has not yet reported the details of the competition, they will be known in August this year - then Musk put all the original data on the contest, plus indicate the parameters of the experimental plot.

Besides, the company also plans to take part in the competition - SpaceX will present its own version of a passenger capsule. However, this project will not participate in the final, but if someone is able to transcend the "native" project of the company, such a group will receive an additional prize.

It is worth noting that earlier SpaceX had planned to build a test section of a length of 8 km. Who knows - whether the test track length of 1, 6 km complement, or the company canceled the project to create a site in length of 8 km.



Source: geektimes.ru/post/252144/