Go-Tube Roots

Like any good tree Go-Tube has roots in other projects.

Hyperloop was announced by Elon Musk in August of 2013 and stimulated much interest in this area. His work is continued by Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and Hyperloop Technologies. SpaceX has announced a pod building competition to stimulate and support development.

ET3 and Daryl Oster have championed an Evacuated Tube Transport method and obtained a patent in 1999.

A solar powered glass transport tube, Tubeway, was proposed by Michael Thalhammer

Earlier work and patents by Robert Goddard, Robert M. Salter of RAND and others, see references to the VacTrain in wikipedia.

The Go-Tube is a three dimensional truss, as is the IsoTruss. It is inspired by and based on work by Buckminster Fuller including the space frame and the Fullerene structure.

What's Happening

March 10, 2016 HTT and Slovakian government are exploring a Hyperloop route between Budapest, Vienna and Bratislava The Bratislava-to-Vienna route is estimated to take 8 minutes at Hyperloop’s full speed, while a Bratislava-to-Budapest trip just 10 minutes.

February 1, 2016 MIT students win first round of SpaceX Hyperloop contest A team from MIT took top honors Saturday at a competition at Texas A&M University to design the Hyperloop, a high-speed transportation concept dreamed up by Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

September 16, 2015 Hyperloop race is on. CBS says the Hyperloop "Kitty Hawk moment" is at hand and views some of the hardware being tested.

June 16, 2015 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competion SpaceX is announcing an open competition, geared towards university students and independent engineering teams, to design and build the best Hyperloop pod and test it on a one-mile track adjacent to SpaceX headquarters.