Not only cars: Honda has tested its space rocket (video)

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! Honda enters the competitive space market that uses multiple missiles. Such missiles are especially valuable in that they reduce the cost of launch into space and as it follows from their name, they can be used more than once to start useful loads in orbit. Honda R&D, Honda Motor Company Research Unit, reported that a successful launch and a multiple prototype of a multiple rocket prototype took place on June 17.

The 56-second test of the vertical take-off and the landing of the rocket took place at the Honda facility in Tayki, often called the "Space City" of Japan. The rocket reached a height of 271. 4 meters and landed only 37 centimeters from the target landing. The Honda multiple prototype has a length of 6. 3 meters and a diameter of 85 centimeters. The mass of the rocket is 900 kg. Honda stated that it has achieved the set goals for launching and landing, receiving data during the test.

This successful test is a huge step towards Honda's ambitious goal - to reach a suborbital space flight by 2029. During the suborbital launch, the rocket reaches the edge of the space, but does not reach orbit. The Japanese company stated that it was the first test of vertical launch and landing of multiple rocket, which demonstrated the key technologies required for the multiple use of the rocket, such as flight stability during lifting and descent, as well as the possibility of landing.

Although Honda rockets are still early in, and no decisions on commercialization of these missile technologies have been made, Honda will continue to make progress in fundamental research in order to develop technologies for the implementation of technological capabilities that will make a subporal. The company is already cooperating with the Japanese Aerosmic Research Agency (Jaxa) to study the technologies needed for the study of cosmos.