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Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket

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1355 points LorenDB | 2 comments | 17 Jun 25 15:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | 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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xeromal ◴[17 Jun 25 16:11 UTC] No.44300756[source]▶
SpaceX showed it was possible and also a crappy place to work means those knowledgeable people go work elsewhere for less work and more money.

inb4 blue origin / DC-X did it first

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1. bryanlarsen ◴[17 Jun 25 16:30 UTC] No.44300952[source]▶
Actually, the DC-X did it first, in 1993. The DC-X was the first vertical rocket landing, Blue Origin was the first vertical landing of a rocket that went to space, and SpaceX was the first vertical landing of an orbital rocket.

This Honda landing neither went to space nor was orbital, so it was a similar test to the DC-X test.

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2. LorenDB ◴[17 Jun 25 16:38 UTC] No.44301043[source]▶
Actually, retropeopulsive landing was demonstrated during the Apollo program, both on the moon with the LM and with LM trainers on the earth. Those systems were human controlled, of course.