{"id":74706,"date":"2017-12-26T21:42:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T05:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/virgin-hyperloop-one-just-broke-its-speed-record"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:11:45","slug":"virgin-hyperloop-one-just-broke-its-speed-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/virgin-hyperloop-one-just-broke-its-speed-record","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Hyperloop One just broke its speed record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kkeHgMKpy34?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Virgin Hyperloop One set a test speed record of nearly 240 miles per hour during its third phase of testing at its site in Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>The company also tested a new airlock which helped transition test pods between atmospheric and vacuum conditions during a test campaign which was completed on December 15, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The tests were conducted in a tube depressurized down to the equivalent air pressure experienced at 200,000 feet above sea level.<\/p>\n<p>A Virgin Hyperloop One pod quickly lifts above the track using magnetic levitation and glides at airline speeds for long distances due to ultra-low aerodynamic drag.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Follow BI UK on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Nz3jG3\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Nz3jG3<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/virgin-hyperloop-one-just-broke-its-speed-record\">Continue reading \u201cVirgin Hyperloop One just broke its speed record\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Hyperloop One set a test speed record of nearly 240 miles per hour during its third phase of testing at its site in Nevada. The company also tested a new airlock which helped transition test pods between atmospheric and vacuum conditions during a test campaign which was completed on December 15, 2017. The tests [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74876,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74706\/revisions\/74876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}