Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing of Experimental Reusable Rocket

Re:Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing of Experimen... by treis on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @12:12PM (#44300762)

This doesn't feel like that much of an accomplishment relatively speaking. It's a smallish rocket that went up and down. Very far away from landing something 100 times heavier from orbit.

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Re:Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing of Experimen... by lupusreal on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @12:18PM (#44300820)

Nobody is propulsively landing anything from orbit yet. (Dragon is supposedly capable of it, as a backup if the chutes fail, but has never done so.)

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Re:Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing of Experimen... by xixixao on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @01:33PM (#44301598)

Starship is already pretty much there (almost-orbit and water splash)

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Re:Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing of Experimen... by lupusreal on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @02:02PM (#44301948)

They've had three failures since those earlier successes, and while I expect they'll get it eventually I wouldn't count them as doing it yet.

Besides SpaceX, its also being worked on by Rocket Lab, Stoke, maybe Blue Origin, and too many Chinese companies to count.

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