KIEV, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Ukrainian government will launch a testing platform for the Hyperloop transport system, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan announced here on Thursday.
While speaking during a media briefing, Omelyan said that the testing platform will be created in 2019 in Dnipro city in central Ukraine.
According to him, Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences, state defense conglomerate Ukroboronprom, aerospace manufacturer Yuzhmash and several other industrial and scientific institutions will take part in developing the platform.
The Hyperloop concept, created by tech billionaire Elon Musk in 2013, is aimed at putting humans or cargo into special pods that move at more than 1,000 km per hour, or faster than a speeding plane, inside a partially pressurized enclosed track.