Media Exposure
HyperXite has gained valuable experience and exposure through participating in the competition held by SpaceX for several years. We have been recognized on several media platforms for innovative thinking and application, and are happy to tell our story.
Students working on the HyperXite Pod IV using ANSYS Discovery Live
HyperXite is pursuing a singular mission: to accelerate the design of future transportation. Since 2015, the University of California, Irvine (UCI) student team has been developing pods — high-speed capsules designed to travel in near-vacuum tubes called hyperloops…read more
Hyperloop U: At SpaceX, Elon Musk’s high-tech transportation competition may be launching loads of careers
“Every engineering student should do a project like this,” said Adora Tadros, an engineering student from UC Irvine working with about 60 teammates on the HyperXite team…read more
Is it time to take the Hyperloop seriously?
Elon Musk's hyperloop could revolutionise public transport
Students Compete To Design Elon Musk’s Hyperloop
HAWTHORNE (CBSLA.com) — Two dozen teams of students from 35 countries competed in Hawthorne Sunday in hopes of providing a critical component for the potentially revolutionary form of high-speed travel known as Hyperloop. [...] “We actually designed, prototyped and built these air levitation skis ourselves,” said Arwa Tizani, UC Irvine team captain... read more
HyperXite Looks to Revolutionize a Future Affordable and Sustainable Transportation
In August 2017, on a warm, sunny day, a team of 15 engineers anxiously watched as they launched their version of a Hyperloop pod, a new concept of transportation, through a vacuum chamber test... read more
Hyperloop teams at SpaceX competition demonstrate ‘proof of concept is here already
SoCal school represents - The HyperXite team from University of California, Irvine, was able to put its pod on the test track on Saturday, reaching speeds of 30 mph in an open-air run (i.e., not in a vacuum environment), project manager Chancelier Schilling told me. ... read more
In Latest Hyperloop Design Competition, a Need for Speed
Design teams from all over the globe gathered near Los Angeles over the weekend for an unusual competition. The prize was a claim to nerd fame: Who can design the fastest Hyperloop pod in the world? ... read more
UCI’s hyperloop team looks to propel transportation technology forward
While other students are out partying on a Friday night, a team of UC Irvine undergrads is installing new control systems and fine tuning software for their hyperloop pod. Their prototype is a step toward realizing Elon Musk’s vision of whisking passengers and cargo from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes... read more
Hawthorne Happenings: Hyperloop Pod Competition
Competing for the fastest science project ever
See the Futuristic Pods That Could Change How We Travel
More than 1,000 students gathered at Texas A&M University on the weekend to compete in SpaceX’s Hyperloop pod competition. The Hyperloop is a theoretical high-speed transit system in which people- or cargo-carrying pods would be loaded into giant low-pressure tubes and sucked along by a large fan at speeds approaching Mach 1... read more
SpaceX's hyperloop student contest brings out many big benefactors
[...] At UC Irvine, where 25 students working 40 to 50 hours a week on the hyperloop project have received $10,000 plus lab and office space from the university, free training from software companies such as Ansys and guidance from employees at corporations including Microsoft... read more
L.A. to San Francisco in an hour? UCI's team wants to win Space X's Hyperloop Pod contest
Find a way to get more than 800 people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in about an hour. That's the goal for members of the HyperXite team at UC Irvine as they finalize their designs for a pod that would speed through a tube at more than 700 mph, levitated by compressed air... read more
The Fantasy-Like Hyperloop Inches Closer to Reality
The Hyperloop, proposed by serial entrepreneur Elon Musk in 2013 as a radical, high-speed transportation concept, may no longer be the stuff of science fiction as it inches closer to becoming a working prototype... read more
UCI HyperXite Team Invited to Hyperloop Pod Design Weekend
Los Angeles to San Francisco in 35 minutes? It is hard to imagine, but indeed that’s the idea behind Hyperloop, a conceptual high-speed transportation system proposed in 2013 by entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors and Space X. The system would transport people and cargo in pods that hurl through pneumatic tubes at over 750 miles per hour... read more
ANSYS Helps Drive Student Innovation In The SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition
Software enables teams to engineer next-generation transportation quickly and efficiently... read more
HyperXite and the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Design Contest
What if there was a system of transportation cheaper, faster and most importantly, safer than driving, flying or boating? This next evolution in transportation is the Hyperloop, to design and build a pod that can transport 840 people between Los Angeles and San Francisco at 760 mph while floating on a cushion of air. Developing this technology is... read more
As Another Hyperloop Passenger Pod Deadline Passes, Designers Ask the 700 Mph Question
The “Official SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition,” announced in June with a goal of the passenger pods being tested at the Hyperloop test track in the summer of 2016, is “geared towards university students and independent engineering teams... read more