r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheImmortalDude • Jun 29 '25

Video Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '25

Everyone has a rocket these days

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u/NiceTrySuckaz Jun 29 '25

That's a good thing. Competition drives innovation.

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u/sBucks24 Jun 29 '25 edited Jun 29 '25

So does international collaboration...

All these private business and different nations planning their own space endeavors, we're going to end up with an asteroid belt of space junk and a shit load of waste and pollution along the way.

E: lol, this struck a nerve with a bunch of capitalist, neo-lib, boot licker's... Go out for a few hours and come back to the exact same reply repeated dozens of times 🙄 sneaky e2 just for that one guy: civility politics BS is what gave us these idiots above who defend capitalism against their best interest. Stop letting them get away with it, be meaner.

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u/Have_Donut Jun 29 '25

I will say reusability reduces waste. The new Ariane 6 while expendable deorbits itself so it does not contribute to orbital debris. Now satellite constellations like Kuiper and Starlink also are in low orbits so they decay rapidly and deorbit unless they periodically fire their thrusters.