Your contribution will help us procure and manufacture best-in-class parts, including levitation arrays, aluminum for a frame with carbon fiber wrap, electronics components to precisely track position, a sensor array to collect data, suspension components for high frequency disturbance loads, and brakes to stop at two times the acceleration of gravity.
Pod construction began in February 2016 and starting in April 2016, the pod will be tested in team-built test rigs as well as in the SpaceX-constructed tube prior to the Final Competition. |