"OK, so, I want a Honda Civic, but for up and down instead of forwards and backwards."
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
Unironically, yes.
If Honda can make a rocket as reliable and cheap as a Civic, relatively, we all win.
Technically, orbit is just forward, really, really fast. "Up" is incidental to the process.
Honda landing rockets, VW getting fully automated vans to drive safely on roads, xAI burning through 1b monthly. Not a good time to be a musk, I guess.
Just wait until they add VTEC to it
Was that a sonic boom? Nah, rev limiter!
The aftermarket spoiler market for these will be huge.
I expect we’ll see SpaceX rockets with VTEC stickers trying to masquerade as performance rockets.
I love that space travel is becoming so democratized now.
It shouldn’t just be governments, it shouldn’t just be private companies, it should be anyone with the wherewithal to figure the technology out.
If your idea of 'democratized' is 'now giant megacorps have comparable capital and assets to entire nation states'...
You have a very, very silly understanding of democracy.
Please explain to me how a giant mega corp is... democratic in nature.
You are describing cyberpunk style, hypercorporate techno-feudalism as democracy.
Democracy is one person, one vote.
Corporate governance structures can basically be boiled down to: one dollar, one vote, ie, oligarchy.
Yeah. Most of humanity has been propagandised into believing that corporations, which are run like dictatorships where < 1% are the majority shareholders who control the operation, are actually equivalent to "freedom" and "democracy".
Clown world.
Is always going to take a massive amount of resources to get to space.
Resources = wealth
Yes, exactly. Nobody is building and successfully launching a crewed mission to space from their garage. It will always be done by governments, companies, and the insanely rich.
that's where ride-sharing could come in.
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.
I doubt that. Spacex is miles ahead of the rest and they have bigger plans.
Sure they would rather have a monopoly on cheap rockets for as long as possible but they have always known people would be trying to catch them up
rivaling their ... 8 year old technology
not a fan of musk but spacex seriously leapfrogged everyone in the 2010s
only to seemingly all turn into a shit show.
He's a shit show, but SpaceX is still doing great. They have more launches per year than any other company or country. While they've had multiple launches explode recently, that's their newer larger rocket where they're still working out kinks.
If they can't get that into shape eventually it could be a problem for the company, but their smaller rocket has a great record, reusable, a fraction of the cost of any other launch provider. Right now they're the only game in town for the U.S. getting to the ISS.
I'd love to see Musk ousted, and more importantly to see real competition from other private launch providers. But don't let Musk hate color your view of reality.
Altitude of 300m …. This is older than 8 years, this corresponds to the first SpaceX tests …. I don’t see that level of historical detail, but Wikipedia lists a milestone of a recovered falcon 9 after launch to orbit. Hondas technology is somewhere over 15 years old …. And the article doesn’t say whether it’s comparable size or power, so no.
Down voted because you didnt immediately talk shit about someone. We all hate musk but it doesnt mean we have to claim it for every post.
I agree. SpaceX is probably not going anywhere anytime soon.
I like Honda, you can drive those cars into the ground, they just keep going.
Now if they can pull that off with a rocket...
Just make sure to point it the other way, first.
This is the best news I’ve heard all day. Go Honda! Fuck Musk!
Now that's a diversification I didn't see coming. Not bad.
Time to invest in Honda.
Maybe they're gonna go full Yamaha.
Can't wait to play a Honda Tenor Saxophone.
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.
The fuck?
Honda is the complete opposite of Leon Hitler and his Space X BS.
About time. Took the market long enough. Bloody hell, it's like capitalism literally handed Musk this business on a golden platter.
Great first step but the vast majority of the work still needs to be done. There's a big difference in getting 300m to the air and back and low earth orbit but Honda is an excellent candidate to get it done.
Put some v-tec in it and it might actually works better.
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