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Streets to space: Auto giant Honda stuns world with reusable rocket launch in Japan
Interesting Engineering ^
| June 17, 2025
| Mrigakshi Dixit
Posted on 06/18/2025 11:35:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
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...and it gets 50,000 miles per gallon................
To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; rktman; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay; telescope115; laplata; ...
PING!......................
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:36:37 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:37:33 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
To: Red Badger
Ah. An actual rice rocket.
In first!
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:38:05 AM PDT
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Texas Eagle
("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
To: Red Badger
This makes them about 5 years behind SpaceX. Still, they’re ahead of anybody else in the world.
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:38:18 AM PDT
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FLT-bird
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
Super Wi Too Lo Orbit
more like a pizza delivery vehicle than a payload.
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:40:05 AM PDT
by
StAnDeliver
(TrumpII)
To: Red Badger
Can they keep it on the runway? (arcane reference)
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:40:33 AM PDT
by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
To: Texas Eagle
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:42:10 AM PDT
by
broken_clock
(Go Trump! Prayers answered!)
To: Red Badger
Looks like a single person rocket... So you save $$$ going without a seat. Not sure though where you will put the human waste product that is sure to ensue after takeoff, unless it is being self contained within a pair of ‘depends’.
All in all... They’re going to need some more development before any commercial purpose can be achieved.
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:47:18 AM PDT
by
jerod
(Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
To: Red Badger
The prototype vehicle soared to an altitude of nearly 889 feet!Wow!
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:48:39 AM PDT
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Navy Patriot
(President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
To: broken_clock
Thank you. I earned it. My fat fingers kept hitting the wrong letters and autocorrect kept coming up with stupid suggestions. The struggle was real.
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:49:36 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
To: Red Badger
Two Factoids
If you are following Bob Zimmerman at https://behindtheblack.com, none of this is “news.” It is great.
Musk start SpaceX around the same time as Bezos “started” Blue Origin. The SpaceX Falcon 9 is a fully reusable system, with a lot less trouble than Boeing. Some of the Falcon 9 rockets have flown 28 times. Eventually there will be a fleet of Falcon 9s that fly 40 times. Even the European Space Agency (ESA) has used SpaceX.
The StarLink system now makes enough $$$ to fund the Starship SuperHeavy test regimen. Bezos/Amazon brag about their internet satellite system, but.......
PS - Bob Zimmerman / behind the black is as unwoke as they come. Real science.
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:49:59 AM PDT
by
Ronaldus Magnus III
(Do, or do not, there is no try - AND - Every Time You Fall Down, Get The Frak Up! )
To: Red Badger
My Estes ‘Scout’ went higher than that, carrying a white mouse.
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:50:09 AM PDT
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tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
To: tumblindice
My Big Bertha did too!...................
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:52:38 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
A real rice burning crotch rocket.
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:52:38 AM PDT
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jacknhoo
(Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: Navy Patriot
The prototype vehicle soared to an altitude of nearly 889 feet!
Wow!
by comparison, a SpaceX rocket is around 250 ft Tall
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:55:15 AM PDT
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rdcbn1
(TV )
To: Red Badger
I wanted the Saturn V but couldn’t afford it, or to feed it those four? C rocket engines.
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posted on
06/18/2025 11:58:37 AM PDT
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tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
To: Red Badger
The Honda A-Type, Honda's First Product on the Market - 1947.
Honda's Super Cub - and we're off to the races and eventually into space.
I admire Honda's winning spirit and winning record.
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posted on
06/18/2025 12:00:04 PM PDT
by
Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: Red Badger
The ‘Long John’ an Army rocket and V2 were pretty cool.
Then there was the Chinese-Korean hybrid: the chinee ‘Long March’ mated to the Korean Dong Gao: the Long Dong.
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posted on
06/18/2025 12:01:51 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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