There's no date given yet for the 1,000 km/hr test, just that the track is under construction. CASIC have said their testing has been successful at 620 km/hr (387 miles/hr). Some people see all the potential problems with this tech and are convinced it can't work. It was probably equally hard to believe watching the Wright Brothers in 1903, that 50 years later people would be zipping across the Atlantic in jet engine airliners in a matter of hours.
CASIC is building a 60 km track to test its T-Flight maglev vacuum tube train at 1,000 km/hr, more than an airliner's cruising speed, and talking about testing at 3,860 km/hr (Mach 3.5).
byu/lughnasadh inFuturology
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if it’s meant to operate in a vacuum tube, why the pointy nose?
Not a chance in hell I’ll get in that. Vacuums are incredibly difficult to maintain and when they fail they fail catastrophically. I suppose death would be instantaneous at those speeds. Small mercy.
Tech bros trying not to invent worse trains challenge, difficulty: impossible