In June of 2015, SpaceX announced an open competition for independent and student engineering teams to design a Hyperloop pod, at approximately half scale, for the opportunity to be tested on a 1-mile track built at their headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Within…

When rLoop first organized, the team was focused on a single project — design and build a prototype pod for the Hyperloop Competition announced by SpaceX. Almost two years have elapsed, and the community has organically created a globally distributed network of talent and…