HHyperloop One (H1), one of the companies developing Tesla Motors owner Elon Musk's concept for a supersonic long-distance maglev transport technology, has achieved its first full-systems test. The test, at the company's facility in the Nevada desert, was not of a deployment-ready system - it involved sending a levitating test sled 96m along a section of tubing rather than a pod capable of carrying freight or passengers - but the vacuum, propulsion, magnetic levitation, guidance and braking systems were all integrated and tested together for the first time, and the tube used, 3.3m in diameter, was full size.
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