Swissloop
Description
We are a Swiss Inter-faculty team participating in the worldwide Hyperloop competition organized by SpaceX to prove this concept. The idea of the so-called Hyperloop was unveiled by SpaceX founder Elon Musk back in 2013. It proposes a novel high-speed ground system allowing you to travel from Zürich to Berlin in 40 minutes. As neither SpaceX nor Tesla is developing a commercial Hyperloop themselves, they announced an open competition, gearing towards university students to design and construct the best Hyperloop pod. To support this competition SpaceX is constructing a one-mile test track, where the university teams are able to test their human scale pods.
- Competition
There are two judging phases in the competition: a design competition that will be held at the start of 2017 and an on-track competition to be held later in 2017. The competition is open to participants globally, although all judging will occur in the United States.
There was already a first promising round of competitions this year, which lead SpaceX to announce a second installment of the competition commencing in fall 2016. The second competition will be judged solely on one criteria: maximum speed with successful deceleration (i.e. without crashing).
Despite its relatively short-lived existence, the excitement about the revolutionary Hyperloop has amassed quite some attention among students in particular in the US, where student teams such as from Princeton, MIT and UC Berkeley are currently participating. However, also European teams such as from Delft University or the TU München can be found among the teams leading the charge in this year’s competition.
- Team
Our team is gathering the best Swiss students of physics, mathematics, computer science and, most prominently, of electric, mechanical- and civil engineering. In close collaboration with Swiss higher education institution like ETH Zürich, we aim to research the Hyperloop concept and invigorate Switzerland's pioneering mobility spirit.
- Why we need to do it?
We think that the ground travelling of today is ready for the next upgrade: a means of transport that revolutionizes the idea of how we connect and shape opportunity in today’s globalized world. We want to innovatively support this endeavor with our ideas and to partake in building a sustainable future. Last but not least, the student competition also offers the exceptional opportunity to interact and learn from other engaged students from various cultural and social backgrounds. In the hopes of reciprocating ETH’s academic and financial support, we are eager to see ETH among the other participating universities at the forefront of this next unstoppable revolution in transportation.
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facebook.comWe are literally flying to LA! ✈️ Murod Saymudinov was so excited after we qualified for the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition final he had to blow off some steam on the trampoline. Thank you ASVZ for helping us with this photo! #myethzurich #eth #labound #flying #spacex #hyperloop #swissloop #thejourneycontinues
It was a hard secret to keep! Today we can finally share that we are qualified for the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition 3 final this summer in LA! 🎉 We are very excited to embark on this next journey and want to thank SpaceX for believing in our project and giving us this amazing opportunity. A big thank you goes out to our sponsors - without them this journey wouldn't be possible. #thejourneycontinues ✈️
More parts arriving every day! We are almost ready to build our new pod. A big thank you to our sponsors Bossard and SKF 🚀
Since you are all loving the first giveaway we are giving away two additional SpaceX shirts to our Instagram followers. 🎉 To win, follow us on Instagram and tag us in your Instagram story. The giveaway will end next Monday at 12 am. Winners will be selected randomly. Good luck! 🍀
It's giveaway time! 🎉 To celebrate Swissloop reaching 3'000 likes on Facebook and the upcoming launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy we are giving away two SpaceX merch bundles including an official SpaceX tee and a baseball cap. If you want to win, simply like our Facebook page and leave a comment on this post. The giveaway will end next Monday at 12 am. Winners will be selected randomly. Good luck! 🍀
We had to take some time off. The last few weeks were exhausting. Working day and night to finish the Final Design Package for SpaceX. But we did it and the journey continues. The next weeks, months will be even more challenging. More sleepless nights, more demanding tasks, more problems which need solving. However, we are ready because now we can turn what's in our heads into reality and there is nothing more rewarding than doing that. Follow us on our journey. There is a lot more to come...
Go have a LOOK! Today we are presenting our pod Escher at the Industrial Design Exhibition LOOK by Institut Industrial Design HGK FHNW. Our stand is located at Freilagerplatz (Dreispitzareal).
Who are these attractive people? Take a look at our complete team and find out more about us on http://swissloop.ch/team/
A New Journey in Transportation is loading... In 12 hours our website relaunches. Take a closer look at our prototype Escher and our current team on http://swissloop.ch
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Your Need For Speed! Our pod Escher looks extra sharp at the SPS IPC Drives at Nürnberg Messe thanks to Baumer Group. Baumer built an installation which looks like the SpaceX testing tube in L.A. #ThrowbackThursday #NeedForSpeed
We are honored Prof. Dr. Sarah Springman mentioned Swissloop in her opening speech at the 2017 ETH Day. Our journey continues and we are thankful for the constant support we receive from ETH Zürich. Thank you for #studentsfirst!
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