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Tag: Japan
Honda’s hopper suddenly makes the Japanese carmaker a serious player in rocketry
The company has not disclosed its spending on rocket development. Honda’s hopper is smaller than similar prototype boosters SpaceX has […]
A Japanese lander crashed on the Moon after losing track of its location
“It’s not impossible, so how do we overcome our hurdles?” Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of ispace, attends a press […]
Trump is “desperate” to make a deal—China isn’t, analysts say
Donald Trump has started signaling that he’s ready to slash tariffs on Chinese imports, but economists have warned that the […]
Japanese railway shelter replaced in less than 6 hours by 3D-printed model
Hatsushima is not a particularly busy station, relative to Japanese rail commuting as a whole. It serves a town (Arida) […]
The early 2000s capacitor plague is probably not just a stolen recipe
It’s a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in the early 2000s with a […]
Kaizen: A Factory Story makes a game of perfecting 1980s Japanese manufacturing
Zach Barth, the namesake of game studio Zachtronics, tends to make a certain kind of game. Besides crafting the free […]
Rocket Report: Rocket Lab’s news blitz; Starship mishap blamed on vibrations
One Falcon 9 launched an Intuitive Machines lunar lander, an asteroid prospector, and a NASA science probe. Peter Beck, Rocket […]
Astroscale aced the world’s first rendezvous with a piece of space junk
Astroscale’s US subsidiary won a $25.5 million contract from the US Space Force in 2023 to build a satellite refueler […]
Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong
Vast’s schedule for deploying a mini-space station in low-Earth orbit was always ambitious. A stack of 21 Starlink internet satellites […]