Like kei cars ....... Kei rockets???!

Up and down isn't a hard problem in the grand scheme of things. It's expensive and doesn't offer much benefit which is why people generally haven't bothered.

Going up and over at orbital velocities and coming back is the hard part, and none of these new spaces companies have done that successfully yet, and SpaceX has now done it with 2 vehicles and reused them both.

New Glenn from Blue Orgin might be the first after SpaceX but it blew up coming back on their first attempt, but it's been designed to be orbital and reusable

Don't forget, one the sleekest airplanes to ever exist.

And their 1st stage is designed to be reusable, so we might have another reusable provide in the near future.

It might take a handful of launches to get there, but they are on that path.

I hope they crush SpaceX one day.

any sources?

It's not a big American rocket.

How many went kaboom before this?

For the production of the tank itself or the likelihood of environmental impact?

Here is an article about the tank, it appears to still be in the proof of concept stage. As for my conjecture that it would likely have a high carbon impact during production that was based mostly on similar studies ~2~ done on the production of cars.

Something something hindenberg...

Tbf doesn’t he have a computer science degree? Which is a type of engineering degree?

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An alternative to.space junk clogging up the sky would indeed be nice.

I mean so are the shells tank fire. If you are hit hard enough to hit the fuel cell in a tank....you have other problems.

As much as it's true, not all company are doing this.
There are plenty of good East Asian company with good work life balance, especially newer company that already recognize the issue.

well Honda did this a decade later so there still is some achievement spacex has done

probably

no one in the private sector was gonna take that kind of risk for a while and then SpaceX took the gamble, won and now tons of players see vertical landing of rockets works so their all looking into it.

Of all the manufacturing companies, I would expect nothing less from Honda.

It says Honda right on the side of the engine.