{"id":13782,"date":"2017-01-23T00:54:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T05:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13782"},"modified":"2017-01-23T00:54:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T05:54:26","slug":"college-teams-to-compete-in-the-spacex-hyperloop-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13782","title":{"rendered":"College teams to compete in the SpaceX Hyperloop contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/hyperloop\" target=\"_d\">Official SpaceX Hyperloop Competition<\/a> will be held this weekend (Jan.27-29, 2017) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> facility in Hawthorne, California.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Boyle reports on the unveiling of the Univ. of Washington team&#8217;s pod racer last week:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2017\/uw-hyperloop-team-unveils-pod-racer\/\">UW Hyperloop team unveils its purple pod racer &#8211; Geekwire<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>In the beginning, 1,200 teams applied. The field was trimmed down to 150, and then to 30. A week from now, UW\u2019s team and the other finalists will send their three-quarter-scale pods through a 1-mile-long tube track that\u2019s been constructed next to SpaceX\u2019s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The winner will be determined\u00a0on the basis of speed as well as design elegance and safety. These test pods aren\u2019t expected to go\u00a0supersonic, but they could hit 300 mph or more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hk2Jws3WqaA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Official SpaceX Hyperloop Competition will be held this weekend (Jan.27-29, 2017) at the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California. Alan Boyle reports on the unveiling of the Univ. of Washington team&#8217;s pod racer last week:\u00a0UW Hyperloop team unveils its purple pod racer &#8211; Geekwire\u00a0&#8211; In the beginning, 1,200 teams applied. The field was trimmed down to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13782\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">College teams to compete in the SpaceX Hyperloop contest<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3Ai","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13826,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13826","url_meta":{"origin":13782,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: Hyperloop competition at SpaceX underway. 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