News last year that both Elon Musk and Richard Branson’s Virgin were dialling down their hyperloop projects suggested that time was being called on turning the combination of vacuum tubes and magnetic levitation into a practical mode of transport. But the idea is not dead in Europe. An international Hyperloop Association was announced this year, to be based in Brussels, and testing infrastructure is planned at a number of European locations.
The French submarine Le Terrible sent a single M51 submarine-launched ballistic missile on a southwestern trajectory, with the impact site in the Sargasso Sea.
Royal DSM and ASR Dutch Science Park Fund announced a long-term partnership to transform the Biotech Campus Delft (BCD) into a world leader in bioscience.