• frezik@midwest.social
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    18 hours ago

    Eh, it’s just a start of development. It only goes 300 meters. Blue Origin goes higher, but even they aren’t in orbit.

    Japan also has some odd limitations on their rockets as part of their self defense only constitution. They don’t build a rocket that could potentially be used to strike mainland Asia.

    https://youtu.be/UZaIs6oSlOI

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        14 hours ago

        And their 1st stage is designed to be reusable, so we might have another reusable provide in the near future.

        It might take a handful of launches to get there, but they are on that path.

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        15 hours ago

        The Estes Corporation makes rockets that will do 600 meters.

        It’s great that Honda is doing this. We really need other companies in this area, because SpaceX is dominating it. Even if Elon weren’t a walking disaster, we don’t want one company so badly outclassing everyone else.

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        17 hours ago

        The issue is not going up, it’s going over. If we only cared about the private sector getting people into space, that happened on a fully reusable vehicle twenty years ago.

        The problem is getting things to stay in space. Not trying to Elon-stan here, but getting a rocket into orbit is many fold more difficult than just getting into space.