
“Hyperloop India” – a group of highly enterprising BITS Pilani students representing India in Elon Musk ideated Space X Hyperloop Competition Summer 2017, has entered its final phase of Orcapod construction. The capsule or pod, the team’s entry into the global technology challenge to be held in Musk-owned SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California on August 25-27, is crafted out of aircraft-grade aluminium.

Inspired by the ground-breaking "Hyperloop" travel idea of inventor-entrepreneur Elon Musk, the budding engineers and researchers are building the single-compartment pod that will be able to travel at 1,200 km/hour speed within a vacuum tube.
"Hyperloop is tube travel wherein you have a vehicle that is magnetically levitated and propelled inside a vacuum tube. The technology that is used for the propulsion and braking systems can vary," explained Prithvi Shankar, a BE final year student at BITS Pilani and a member of Team Hyperloop.
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“We are using a scalability first approach to make the design more flexible for the transportation of cargo as well as passengers” he said.
Team Hyperloop India has zeroed in on aluminium as the material of built for their Orcapod. Unlike other teams which are relying on carbon-fibre for the capsules, they have used aircraft-grade aluminium as they think the metal is four-times cheaper than carbon-fibre.
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