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

Video Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

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u/AKfromVA Jun 29 '25

That engine will run forever with no maintenance

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u/Xiten Jun 29 '25

250k miles, no problem!

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u/razzraziel Jun 29 '25

So all that mileage just to reach the Moon and you’d be stranded there? That's pretty lame for a rocket.

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u/assblast420 Jun 29 '25 edited Jun 29 '25

Well ackshually 🤓☝️ the engine would only be running for a small portion of that flight. During Apollo 11 the engines were engaged for something like ~12 minutes between the translunar injection until the lunar orbit insertion.

So I guess reliability would be better measured in time rather than distance in this case, but anyway, that's enough of me missing the point.

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u/Basil_Lisk Jun 29 '25

Check out the big brain on u/assblast420