Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket
https://www.theverge.com/news/689183/honda-reusable-rocket-successful-launch-test-landing
Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket
https://www.theverge.com/news/689183/honda-reusable-rocket-successful-launch-test-landing
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Lol, if Honda manages to beat everyone else to commercialised space, I will be genuinely happy. I would much rather them than spacex, Virgin intergalactic, or any other shitty capitalist Western space company.
A lot of important space missions have come out of Japan recently, most notably DART.
Honda, the company that just somehow quietly makes everything in the background. Just need to wait for them to start making Pianos…
Nothing like this surprises me anymore after discovering samsung makes auto turrets
Instead of detaching, second stage just kicks VTEC in.
Honda a brand you can actually build a company with
love the legs, i wonder if they are using methlox?
When does VTEC kick in? Before or after Max Q?
I sincerely hope this is going to be the next Civic!
This is great news. There needs to be more companies viably developing reusable rockets.
And no 10 failed attempts before it worked including spectacular explosions.
Should note that this is _not_ an orbital class rocket! It’s really just a testbed for control systems, similar to spacex grasshopper. Getting to orbit is an additional level of difficulty on top of this. Still, more competition is always good! Spacex won’t be alone at the top forever.
Can all maintenance be done with basic hand tools too?
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|[NA](/r/Space/comments/1lel7lh/stub/myhczw4 “Last usage”)|New Armstrong, super-heavy lifter proposed by Blue Origin|
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|[hydrolox](/r/Space/comments/1lel7lh/stub/myhen4o “Last usage”)|Portmanteau: liquid hydrogen fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer|
|[methalox](/r/Space/comments/1lel7lh/stub/myhen4o “Last usage”)|Portmanteau: methane fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer|
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Musk is slowly becoming more and more irrelevant.
I think that people here are a bit over enthusiastic. It reached just over 200 meters and then got back to the ground. Clearly they were just testing vertical landing, and if I got it correctly the final model will be suborbital.
That said, the more space companies the merrier. And it certainly is good too that it is outside the US.
Honda: Announces space program in 2021, launching and recovering rockets less than 4 years later.
SpaceX: Founded in 2002, rockets still exploding.
Based on my Honda’s million year old diesel engine that needs a quick wipe over every 6 months to keep going, I trust them to build space rockets.
As someone who owns two Honda vehicles, I support this. Such a dependable brand.
Wow. That’s huge. Musk has real competition there if honda pulls it off.
What does Honda not do lol. Going from planning stages in 2021 to a launch in 2025 seem pretty quick
Ah yes, the Honda Vertical Takeoff Experimental Capsule…..
But Elon is the only one able to do this!!!! Because/s