Europe’s first certified full scale Hyperloop test track opens
Opening of the Hyperloop test segment at the Ottobrunn/Taufkirchen campus. Around 400 guests were able to examine the research facility up close. The first passenger trips are starting on the Technical University of Munich’s (TUM) Hyperloop test track. The 24-meter-long experimental tube at the TUM Ottobrunn/Taufkirchen campus near Munich is Europe’s first full-scale Hyperloop test segment; after a construction period of less than one year it was officially opened by Bavarian Minister-President Dr. Markus Söder and Bavarian Minister of Science and the Arts Markus Blume. The Hyperloop pod has been completely certified for passenger operations. Now the research group will focus its attention primarily on the drive system, levitation technology and vacuum behavior. ...
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