What It\'s Really Like to Race in Elon Musk\'s SpaceX Hyperloop Competition
Although the Delft Hyperloop team set off for Hawthorne, California, with record results
Set wishes, last-
A one-minute technical glitch made them pray for a comeback.
In fact, when Holland
The SpaceX-based student team took part in the third SpaceX hyperloop pod Competition last week, and they are very keen to break the speed record of 240 miles/hour motor and receive the highest award.
But the disaster took place in a critical form --
Minute Controller failure
Just like the team looks like it\'s empty to return to the Netherlands --
They have completed what SpaceX consultants call a \"rapid rise from death\" shift.
\"Del Delft beat 16 other teams enough to get them second place.
As you may know, hyperloop was first outlined by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in a 2013 white paper that claims vacuum-
The sealed subway can travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco at 700 miles an hour.
Prior to July 22, the fastest achievement for any group was Richard Brison.
Support Virgin Hyperloop One, reaching 240 miles per hour in December 2017.
Before the game, Delft told Inverse that their team might go faster.
Delft has every reason to be confident.
A team from the same University won the January 2017 match for SpaceX 0. 8-
Most of the team found the Hardt Hyperloop.
Edouard Schneiders, who worked as an engineer in the first competition group, became the leader of a new Delft Hyperloop group. The newly-
Set up the Delft team.
This means that the third event of SpaceX (judged by speed alone) is under pressure.
Only three of the 18 teams, including del Delft, passed the security check and received permission to participate.
But it\'s serious.
The minute technical problem means Delft looks like it\'s running out, but the miracle is that the team scores at the highest rate of 88 miles per hour.
It\'s not as fast as WARR Hyperloop, which claims to be 290 miles per hour, but it\'s enough to beat EPFL Hyperloop, which is 53 miles per hour.
Inverse spoke with Schneiders to learn more about their unexpected second place, and about the competition in Elon Musk\'s iconic Super Ring race.
Congrats on your second place!
How do you feel?
We are very proud and happy for what we have achieved in this competition.
We moved from almost out of the game, up to second place from Ashes --
This is combined with the perseverance the team needs to achieve this goal, making this year\'s game an incredible thing.
How does it feel to be in the actual event with Elon Musk and others?
Really excited.
Everything Elon is involved in is exciting, and the people he draws to him are equally exciting.
The event itself was tense and challenging, but as a team, we were able to show what we could do despite the many pitfalls and adversities we faced.
Musk stood with the del Delft team.
Delft believes this will break the speed record of the super high-speed rail. What happened?
Our goal is to speed more than 480 kilometers per hour (300 mph).
The fact that we can get any speed is a miracle --
Not to mention winning second place in the game.
On Friday, two days before the race, we started to run into problems with the motor controller.
We can\'t get it to work.
We know that if we can\'t fix it quickly, we don\'t have a chance to pass the test in time for the last run, and we have to pass the test.
Our last chance is to fix the motor controller by Saturday morning.
That night, the team was under a lot of pressure due to lack of sleep, unfortunately made a mistake and the motherboard running our pod was short-circuitedcircuited.
What\'s worse, we don\'t have any extra.
We look everywhere for another
Ask the team and drive to every store near the SpaceX headquarters.
The motherboard is a rare product that can\'t be found anywhere
Especially Saturday morning.
By noon on Saturday, we tried everything and almost gave up, ready to pack up and go.
All of a sudden, however, a teammate suggested that she look carefully at all the boxes we brought from Delft, just in case.
We have nothing to lose, but even if we find a new motherboard, we still have no chance to get the final run, because it is too late to repair our motor controller and pass all the tests in time.
Test the view on the track.
Suddenly, a big surprise!
We found another motherboard hidden in a box in another box.
We also managed to install it and our motor controller works in a few minutes.
Then we passed the first test perfectly, which was running on an external sub-track (
A small track on the SpaceX plot)
Followed closely.
Usually, it may take several attempts for each test.
At this point, we feel that we have won this achievement in our own way, because we have proved that our pod is effective.
From that point on, everything is an extra bonus.
Then, another big surprise!
We were allowed to enter the vacuum chamber for the next Test and we motor also passed the test in our first attempt.
It\'s incredible!
We don\'t know what it means, but there is nothing we can lose.
Sure enough, then we were allowed to do an open-air tube run —
Last Test
If we can run 150 km/h (93 mph)perfectly —
No problem.
We were told that we might be allowed to do the last run of the next day on Sunday, July 22.
Since this has never happened, the whole situation is completely surreal.
Somehow, in various cases, we created a recording time to load our pods and prepare it --
It worked miraculously in the first attempt.
Delft ready for the event.
At this point, it was late Saturday night because in the last Test we had to wait a few hours for another team that had problems loading the pod.
After a while, we received good news.
We were allowed to play in the final on Sunday.
However, we are at a great disadvantage to running itself.
Other teams (
They were not delayed like we were)
Higher speeds and more frequencies have been tested
So they know better how their vehicles will behave.
However, for us, everything after passing the first sub
Track testing is just a good reward because we really have nothing to lose after all the other challenges we face.
For this reason, we decided to take some risks and try to reach a speed of more than 480 km/h and maybe even win the game.
We think it\'s worth a try.
The launch tube is ready.
To achieve this, we set the parameters, but there is very little data as the basis.
Unfortunately, when our hyperloop pod reached 142 km/h, our motor was overheated and turned off as a safety measure (88 mph).
We reached this speed at 180.
More than 1/10 a mile).
We know that overheating is possible, but we only tested our motors where the Dutch climate is much cooler, so there has never been a problem before.
However, in the subway, it is actually much warmer than the outdoor temperature in Los Angeles on Sunday, where the temperature reaches about 30 degrees Celsius (
86 degrees Fahrenheit).
As a team, we are very proud that we have been so good in such a tense situation.
Winning is our goal, but we are satisfied with the result.
In the face of difficulties that seem insurmountable, we have done our best to overcome many adversities.
The whole experience was incredible, exciting, but also very stressful
Shelves at the same time.
In the words of our SpaceX consultants, we have experienced a \"rapid rise from death \".
\"What is the team planning to do next?
Is it planned to split?
First of all, team members are planning a well-deserved holiday!
There will be another game next year, and then the team will be ready for another game of the Championship.
There are a lot of our competitors, which will only make the whole event more interesting.
We are already looking forward to challenging them again next year.
There is no plan to split up.
Some of our teammates will finish their studies and graduate and others will continue to work with the team. But, who knows?
This can happen once we finish our studies and graduate --you never know.
When can I ride a Superbike? Pretty soon.
I think we can look forward to the first commercial super cycle track in the next five years, most likely in Asia.
India and Saudi Arabia have also shown special interest in the super high-speed rail.
As an infrastructure, however, it will take a while to actually build a complete Hyperloop network.
For this reason, I think it may take another 40 years
Set wishes, last-
A one-minute technical glitch made them pray for a comeback.
In fact, when Holland
The SpaceX-based student team took part in the third SpaceX hyperloop pod Competition last week, and they are very keen to break the speed record of 240 miles/hour motor and receive the highest award.
But the disaster took place in a critical form --
Minute Controller failure
Just like the team looks like it\'s empty to return to the Netherlands --
They have completed what SpaceX consultants call a \"rapid rise from death\" shift.
\"Del Delft beat 16 other teams enough to get them second place.
As you may know, hyperloop was first outlined by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in a 2013 white paper that claims vacuum-
The sealed subway can travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco at 700 miles an hour.
Prior to July 22, the fastest achievement for any group was Richard Brison.
Support Virgin Hyperloop One, reaching 240 miles per hour in December 2017.
Before the game, Delft told Inverse that their team might go faster.
Delft has every reason to be confident.
A team from the same University won the January 2017 match for SpaceX 0. 8-
Most of the team found the Hardt Hyperloop.
Edouard Schneiders, who worked as an engineer in the first competition group, became the leader of a new Delft Hyperloop group. The newly-
Set up the Delft team.
This means that the third event of SpaceX (judged by speed alone) is under pressure.
Only three of the 18 teams, including del Delft, passed the security check and received permission to participate.
But it\'s serious.
The minute technical problem means Delft looks like it\'s running out, but the miracle is that the team scores at the highest rate of 88 miles per hour.
It\'s not as fast as WARR Hyperloop, which claims to be 290 miles per hour, but it\'s enough to beat EPFL Hyperloop, which is 53 miles per hour.
Inverse spoke with Schneiders to learn more about their unexpected second place, and about the competition in Elon Musk\'s iconic Super Ring race.
Congrats on your second place!
How do you feel?
We are very proud and happy for what we have achieved in this competition.
We moved from almost out of the game, up to second place from Ashes --
This is combined with the perseverance the team needs to achieve this goal, making this year\'s game an incredible thing.
How does it feel to be in the actual event with Elon Musk and others?
Really excited.
Everything Elon is involved in is exciting, and the people he draws to him are equally exciting.
The event itself was tense and challenging, but as a team, we were able to show what we could do despite the many pitfalls and adversities we faced.
Musk stood with the del Delft team.
Delft believes this will break the speed record of the super high-speed rail. What happened?
Our goal is to speed more than 480 kilometers per hour (300 mph).
The fact that we can get any speed is a miracle --
Not to mention winning second place in the game.
On Friday, two days before the race, we started to run into problems with the motor controller.
We can\'t get it to work.
We know that if we can\'t fix it quickly, we don\'t have a chance to pass the test in time for the last run, and we have to pass the test.
Our last chance is to fix the motor controller by Saturday morning.
That night, the team was under a lot of pressure due to lack of sleep, unfortunately made a mistake and the motherboard running our pod was short-circuitedcircuited.
What\'s worse, we don\'t have any extra.
We look everywhere for another
Ask the team and drive to every store near the SpaceX headquarters.
The motherboard is a rare product that can\'t be found anywhere
Especially Saturday morning.
By noon on Saturday, we tried everything and almost gave up, ready to pack up and go.
All of a sudden, however, a teammate suggested that she look carefully at all the boxes we brought from Delft, just in case.
We have nothing to lose, but even if we find a new motherboard, we still have no chance to get the final run, because it is too late to repair our motor controller and pass all the tests in time.
Test the view on the track.
Suddenly, a big surprise!
We found another motherboard hidden in a box in another box.
We also managed to install it and our motor controller works in a few minutes.
Then we passed the first test perfectly, which was running on an external sub-track (
A small track on the SpaceX plot)
Followed closely.
Usually, it may take several attempts for each test.
At this point, we feel that we have won this achievement in our own way, because we have proved that our pod is effective.
From that point on, everything is an extra bonus.
Then, another big surprise!
We were allowed to enter the vacuum chamber for the next Test and we motor also passed the test in our first attempt.
It\'s incredible!
We don\'t know what it means, but there is nothing we can lose.
Sure enough, then we were allowed to do an open-air tube run —
Last Test
If we can run 150 km/h (93 mph)perfectly —
No problem.
We were told that we might be allowed to do the last run of the next day on Sunday, July 22.
Since this has never happened, the whole situation is completely surreal.
Somehow, in various cases, we created a recording time to load our pods and prepare it --
It worked miraculously in the first attempt.
Delft ready for the event.
At this point, it was late Saturday night because in the last Test we had to wait a few hours for another team that had problems loading the pod.
After a while, we received good news.
We were allowed to play in the final on Sunday.
However, we are at a great disadvantage to running itself.
Other teams (
They were not delayed like we were)
Higher speeds and more frequencies have been tested
So they know better how their vehicles will behave.
However, for us, everything after passing the first sub
Track testing is just a good reward because we really have nothing to lose after all the other challenges we face.
For this reason, we decided to take some risks and try to reach a speed of more than 480 km/h and maybe even win the game.
We think it\'s worth a try.
The launch tube is ready.
To achieve this, we set the parameters, but there is very little data as the basis.
Unfortunately, when our hyperloop pod reached 142 km/h, our motor was overheated and turned off as a safety measure (88 mph).
We reached this speed at 180.
More than 1/10 a mile).
We know that overheating is possible, but we only tested our motors where the Dutch climate is much cooler, so there has never been a problem before.
However, in the subway, it is actually much warmer than the outdoor temperature in Los Angeles on Sunday, where the temperature reaches about 30 degrees Celsius (
86 degrees Fahrenheit).
As a team, we are very proud that we have been so good in such a tense situation.
Winning is our goal, but we are satisfied with the result.
In the face of difficulties that seem insurmountable, we have done our best to overcome many adversities.
The whole experience was incredible, exciting, but also very stressful
Shelves at the same time.
In the words of our SpaceX consultants, we have experienced a \"rapid rise from death \".
\"What is the team planning to do next?
Is it planned to split?
First of all, team members are planning a well-deserved holiday!
There will be another game next year, and then the team will be ready for another game of the Championship.
There are a lot of our competitors, which will only make the whole event more interesting.
We are already looking forward to challenging them again next year.
There is no plan to split up.
Some of our teammates will finish their studies and graduate and others will continue to work with the team. But, who knows?
This can happen once we finish our studies and graduate --you never know.
When can I ride a Superbike? Pretty soon.
I think we can look forward to the first commercial super cycle track in the next five years, most likely in Asia.
India and Saudi Arabia have also shown special interest in the super high-speed rail.
As an infrastructure, however, it will take a while to actually build a complete Hyperloop network.
For this reason, I think it may take another 40 years
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