Is the Hyperloop going to herald a new era of green high-speed transportation? What needs to be done to make it work? Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe How do you engineer the fastest mode of transport on Earth? What does it take to turn a hundred year old idea into a reality? Anita Sengupta, Rocket Scientist and Research Professor from the University of Southern California, discusses the work and creativity that goes into the Hyperloop, a new form of high-speed transportation that can best be described as space travel on the ground with travel speeds of 1000km/h. Don’t blink, or you’ll miss it. #hyperloop #infrastructure Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/2GePVZ4Fx9c Dr Anita Sengupta is a rocket scientist and aerospace engineer who for over 20 years has been developing technologies that have enabled the exploration of Mars, Asteroids, and Deep Space. She started her career working on the Delta IV launch vehicle at Boeing Space Systems. Her doctoral research at NASA focused on the development of the ion engine technology that powered the Dawn spacecraft to reach Vesta and Ceres in the main asteroid belt. She was then responsible for the supersonic parachute system that was integral to the landing of NASA's Curiosity Rover on Mars in 2012. From 2012 to 2017, she led the development of NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory, a laser-cooling quantum physics facility which is now on board the International Space Station. In 2017 she joined the executive team of Virgin Hyperloop One, as Senior Vice President of Systems Engineering. Anita and her team are designing and readying for human use, a new mode of transportation know as the Hyperloop. This magnetically levitating, electromagnetically propelled, passenger transport system in a vacuum tube, is the first new mode of transportation in over 100 years. It can best be desribed as a spacecraft travelling on the ground. The hyperloop has the ability to revolutionize transportation with spe