Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket
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In Japan?
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 08:34 zuletzt editiert von"... it'll be the same, but it's a huge honor to work on this project in our company."
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Because the last stage of existence on this planet. Will be febel plans to try and colonize other planets. Because our planet will start to poison us as a defensive mechanism. All of these Corporations need a plan to get off planet.
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 08:38 zuletzt editiert vonImo it's a good thing tho. Spreading our civilization across multiple planets is the only way to guarantee long long term success. Obviously we should also fix the climate change issue (and many others). But still, being spread across the solar system would give our species redundancy. An extinction event on earth like a large meteor strike would no longer be the end.
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This post did not contain any content.schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 08:49 zuletzt editiert von
Anything that erodes SpaceX's monopoly is good for me
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Because the last stage of existence on this planet. Will be febel plans to try and colonize other planets. Because our planet will start to poison us as a defensive mechanism. All of these Corporations need a plan to get off planet.
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 09:27 zuletzt editiert vonThe planet isn't doing anything, we are poisoning ourselves. Or as lemmy puts it "big evil corporations (which we support everyday because it's cheaper than buying local/sustainable) are poisoning us".
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Genuinely curious: how many explosions before the successful test?
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 10:06 zuletzt editiert vonApparently they got it right on the first try.
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This is the first I have heard they were doing this. Makes spacex accomplishments less impressive. Fuck elon
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 10:08 zuletzt editiert vonHow does it make spaceX’s accomplishments less impressive? SpaceX pioneered it. Space X did it first, with a significantly bigger rocket and at a significantly higher altitude. Honda no doubt achieved this by looking at what spacex did and how they did it and copying it.
This actually makes spaceX’s accomplishments look even more impressive.
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"... it'll be the same, but it's a huge honor to work on this project in our company."
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 10:09 zuletzt editiert vonAnd we reward you for this huge honour with the worst working conditions you can imagine. You’ll live at your desk.
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If it had vtech and a fart cannon it would have hit 600m.
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I imagine they poached a lot of Spacex engineers by simply telling them “we won’t make you work ungodly hours, nor will we subject you to a narcissistic manchild with no engineering education dropping in on your meetings and trying to tell you how to do your job”
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 10:37 zuletzt editiert von cocodapuf@lemmy.worldI bet they poached 0-3 engineers.
You left out the "but you have to learn Japanese and move to Japan" part of the job pitch. That makes it a harder sell for most people.
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It seems crazy that a company that's only really known for cars, motorbikes, tuning forks, heat pumps, brake pads, pens, tractors, fertilizer, display panels, outboard motors, pneumatic systems, oil tankers, furniture, locomotives, bricks, solar panels, ATVs, generators, hot air balloons, dinghies, hydrogen fuel cells, submarines, crop dusters, jet engines, cultivators, hedge trimmers, lawnmowers, precision optics and robots would suddenly pivot to rockets.
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 10:43 zuletzt editiert von cocodapuf@lemmy.worldIt's actually interesting how similar rockets and jet engines are. You could think of a rocket as a jet (or sometimes two jet engines) where the afterburner is always on and the air intake is replaced by an O2 tank..
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This wasn't much more than a toy rocket:
6.3 m in length, 85 cm in diameter,
The test was completed successfully, the first time Honda landed a rocket after reaching an altitude of nearly 300 meters.But still they were successful on their first try, so we will have to see where they take it from here.
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 10:45 zuletzt editiert vonIt's proof of tech. It'd be stupid and wasteful to do all the tests on a full size rocket.
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N420HA. Not sure if that's the model or the plane's license plate but either way hell yeah
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 10:46 zuletzt editiert vonYeah, tail numbers are a lot like license plates.
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No, that's Nintendo
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 10:48 zuletzt editiert vonNo, they're the playing card company.
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We got Honda launching rockets before GTA 6
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 10:51 zuletzt editiert vonI thought Rockstar was going to launch GTA 6
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An alternative to starlink would be great.
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 10:52 zuletzt editiert von cocodapuf@lemmy.worldYeah, they could have a product ready by 2045! (If they hurry and make it a priority)
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Anything that erodes SpaceX's monopoly is good for me
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 10:56 zuletzt editiert vonUnfortunately, the next competitor will be Amazon...
And then we'll see what happens next, getting a whole constellation up is no small feat, I can't see a third company getting a system working before 2050.
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I thought Rockstar was going to launch GTA 6
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 10:59 zuletzt editiert von"Listen here you little shit..."
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Something something hindenberg...
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 11:01 zuletzt editiert vonWell, different. You'd have highly compressed hydrogen in a cylindrical pressure vessel.
The Hindenburg just burned, actually it was mostly its highly flammable paint that caught fire. When a pressure vessel is ruptured, it explodes in a big way, or it quickly removes itself from the vehicle like a mini rocket.
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How does Helium fit through places that Hydrogen can't even though its bigger? Is it because Hydrogen would react with things along the way while Helium won't?
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 11:05 zuletzt editiert vonI'm also curious, I thought hydrogen was the worst in this regard.
I like your theory on hydrogen reacting as it moves through materials.
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It's proof of tech. It'd be stupid and wasteful to do all the tests on a full size rocket.
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 11:08 zuletzt editiert vonThere’s a YouTube channel called BPS Space where this guy spent 7 years learning how to land a model rocket space x style. He talked about how much you can learn about real rocket science even from a small model.
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