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Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket

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1355 points LorenDB | 5 comments | 17 Jun 25 15:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.413s | source
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whatever1 ◴[17 Jun 25 16:02 UTC] No.44300677[source]▶
Question why is it so easy today to build reusable rockets? Is it because the onboard cpu speed of the chips can solve more granular control problems with low latency?
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1. treis ◴[17 Jun 25 16:12 UTC] No.44300762[source]▶
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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2. lupusreal ◴[17 Jun 25 16:18 UTC] No.44300820[source]▶
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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3. xixixao ◴[17 Jun 25 17:33 UTC] No.44301598[source]▶
Starship is already pretty much there (almost-orbit and water splash)
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4. lupusreal ◴[17 Jun 25 18:02 UTC] No.44301948{3}[source]▶
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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