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
“OK, so, I want a Honda Civic, but for up and down instead of forwards and backwards.”
Unironically, yes.
If Honda can make a rocket as reliable and cheap as a Civic, relatively, we all win.
I didn’t know Honda made sex toys.
Hitachi could make a reusable rocket, you just gotta wipe the sticky off it between flights
Honda sex toys are reliable and has been married for 100 years