If it had vtech and a fart cannon it would have hit 600m.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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Anything that erodes SpaceX's monopoly is good for me
Unfortunately, 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.
I know Blue Horizon or whatever it's called has had minor success with rockets. What's stopping Honda from out-competing them? Could it be a funding problem? (I know Blue Horizon has a lot of Amazon funding)
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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. 🚀
It's proof of tech. It'd be stupid and wasteful to do all the tests on a full size rocket.
There’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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Genuinely curious: how many explosions before the successful test?
Idk, looks more like Hitachi
I wanna buy one and see what it can do with an old 4 cylinder VTEC out of a Civic Si.
What the F is every corporation's boner with rockets? 🚀
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.
The 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".
Imo 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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Yes, let spend money to fuck up other planets as well instead of saving this one. /s
That’s exactly what they will say.
It would take a lot to make Mars more habitable than Earth. This isn't about colonisation this is simply that it's cool to build rockets.
Yeah, it's easier to terraform ... Planet Earth!
It's the only planet we can terraform (As in repairing some of the damage we've done), we are nowhere near able to terraform Mars, not even theoretically and disregarding cost.
Maybe in a century we can. But only maybe.
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Feeble? But I think you meant futile? Idk.
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