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In a bizarre touch, Honda, the Japanese car manufacturer, has taken its off -road engineering and in space. The company launched and won a reusable prototype rocket on Tuesday, June 17, scoring a key step towards its new goal of reaching the Suborbital space flight by 2029.
In the surprise announcementHonda R&D – The company’s research branch – has successfully declared the first launch and landing test of its experimental experimental experimental vehicle of 20.6 feet (6.3 meters) after reaching an altitude of 889 feet (271 meters) in its test establishment in Taiki, a city in northern Japan known for space research. The test aimed to demonstrate technologies essential to the reusction of rockets, such as the stability of flights during ascent and descent, as well as landing capacities, according to the company’s press release.
“Although research on Honda rockets is still in the fundamental research phase and that no decision has been made concerning the marketing of these rocket technologies, Honda will continue to progress in basic research with a technological development objective of carrying out technological capacity to allow a suborbital launch by 2029”, indicates the declaration.
Honda first announcement Provisional plans to build a small reusable rocket in September 2021 as part of an initiative to enter space technologies. At the end of 2024, the company created the American Honda space development division to promote technological development in the United States and improve collaboration with the American space industry.
Since then, Honda has been actively involved in the development of tools related to space flights. In April, the manufacturer announcement plans to test an electrolysis system on the International Space Station (ISS) and to build a regenerative fuel cell system to support life in space and on earth. In May, Honda in partnership With Private SpaceFlight Company Astroscal Japan Inc. to develop a satellite supply system in orbit.
However, the company has maintained its relatively silent space flight progress in recent years and has not publicly disclosed the details of the launch test for its reusable rocket, which is why today was such a surprise. Honda is not the only car manufacturer that demands the commercial space race. Earlier this year, Toyota announced that his research arm had invested in interstellar technologies technologies in Taiki SpaceFlight Company to support the mass production of launch vehicles, Reuters reports
The Japanese government set an ambitious objective to double the size of its space industry at 8 yen billions ($ 55.20 billion) in the early 2030s, according to Reuters. To get there, he established a space company of several billion dollars to subsidize private rockets, satellites and other missions.
Today’s successful launch and landing gives an optimistic tone for Honda’s emerging space program. “We are delighted that Honda has taken another step forward in our research on reusable rockets with this success of a launch and landing test,” said World CEO Toshihiro Mibe in the ad. “We believe that research on rockets is a significant company that takes advantage of Honda’s technological forces.”
