Honda pulls off surprise reusable rocket test launch
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Honda says growing expectations of a "data system in outer space" are going to increase the demand for rockets to launch satellites. So, the Japanese automaker quietly built one and tested it successfully.
Japan's second-largest carmaker, Honda, has successfully tested an experimental reusable space rocket on the nothern Japanese island of Hokkaido, the company said in a surprise announcement.
"The test was completed successfully, the first time Honda landed a rocket after reaching an altitude of nearly 300 meters (1,000 feet)," the company said in a statement on Tuesday.
The carmaker aims to achieve suborbital space flight in 2029. In 2021, Honda said it was studying space technologies such as reusable rockets but made no announcements prior to Tuesday's test
Annnnnnnnnnnnd everyone else just been replaced.
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Just wait until they add VTEC to it
The aftermarket spoiler market for these will be huge.
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Now that's a diversification I didn't see coming. Not bad.
Time to invest in Honda.
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Was that a sonic boom? Nah, rev limiter!
Could have been the blowoff valve for the turbo! Or a shitty muffler delete on a nearby Infiniti
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Time to invest in Honda.
Maybe they're gonna go full Yamaha.
Can't wait to play a Honda Tenor Saxophone.
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Time to invest in Honda.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Ehh they have an engine market problem. I've seen analysis that Honda isn't a car company, they're an engine company - cars, generators, lawn mowers, pumps, a whole whack of industrial things. They really need to shift to electric motors but even then it's not a 1 for 1.
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"OK, so, I want a Honda Civic, but for up and down instead of forwards and backwards."
Technically, orbit is just forward, really, really fast. "Up" is incidental to the process.
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Just make sure to point it the other way, first.
Where we are going, we don't need... wheels.
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This must terrify Musk and his SpaceX
It pleases me.
I don’t believe they have even hit space yet, the test was only from 1000 ft.
Still, cool as hell.
Wait. This is just more commodification of space.
Fuck that. And I will be against it until we figure out our fucking shit down here on the ground.
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The aftermarket spoiler market for these will be huge.
Wait until Hector gets to Harry’s…this shit gonna be lit.
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Honda says growing expectations of a "data system in outer space" are going to increase the demand for rockets to launch satellites. So, the Japanese automaker quietly built one and tested it successfully.
Japan's second-largest carmaker, Honda, has successfully tested an experimental reusable space rocket on the nothern Japanese island of Hokkaido, the company said in a surprise announcement.
"The test was completed successfully, the first time Honda landed a rocket after reaching an altitude of nearly 300 meters (1,000 feet)," the company said in a statement on Tuesday.
The carmaker aims to achieve suborbital space flight in 2029. In 2021, Honda said it was studying space technologies such as reusable rockets but made no announcements prior to Tuesday's test
Fuck yeah!
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Oh no their very first prototype test didn't catch up and surpass everything. Guess they're doomed. Better give up and stop trying.
where the fuck did i ever say that
