Honda’s hopper suddenly makes the Japanese carmaker a serious player in rocketry

Posted to the Fediverse, so also sharing here as it is really cool. Honda, the car firm, is now building reusable rockets.

• Hondas Hopper

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#Space,#Rockets,#Engineering,#Honday,#Japan

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This week saw Japan become only the 5th country to land on the moon. This has been achieved using their SLIM mission, Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (SLIM).

At the time of writing this, the mission status is that they landed on the moon, but there are issues with the solar panels preventing power to the lander. However, landing on the moon is very difficult. So this success proved the technology worked.

More information will be available in due course, in the meantime there is a link to the mission website below.

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• SLIM Mission
  • Latest Information

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#Science,#Moon,#Japan,#SLIM,#Mission

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Date : 26/06/2021 Venue : Murrayfield, Edinburgh Time : 15h00 (BST) Result: Lions 28-10 Japan

• Japan Game
• Lions Tour Website
• Fixtures

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