Honda has set its sights higher than just producing reliable cars. In June 2025, it successfully launched and landed a ...

Japan's primary rocket builder, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, is another titan of Japanese industry, but it has never launched more than six space missions in a single year. MHI's newest rocket, the H3 ...

Watch this amazing footage of Honda conducting a launch and landing test of an experimental reusable rocket. Credit: Honda R&D Co., Ltd., a research and development subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

The small Honda rocket is about one tenth the size of the first successful reusable rocket, SpaceX's Falcon 9 Full Thrust SES-9 launch in 2015, making it ideal for smaller payloads and using less ...

The Brief. Honda has successfully launched and landed a reusable rocket, reaching nearly 300 meters in altitude during a 56.6-second test flight.

Honda has firmly entered the world of space rocketry as of June 2025, when it launched a reusable rocket from a launchpad in Hokkaido, Japan.

Back in October 2021, Honda announced that they were developing a reusable rocket prototype which the company wants to be a part of cosmic explorations, expanding their potential to reach outer space.

Japan's second-largest carmaker, Honda, has successfully tested an experimental reusable space rocket on the nothern Japanese island of Hokkaido, the company said in a surprise announcement.

Honda successfully launched and landed its experimental reusable rocket at its facility in Japan, the company said in a surprise announcement Tuesday. The rocket reached an altitude of 271.4 meters… ...

Honda has successfully launched and landed a reusable rocket, reaching nearly 300 meters in altitude during a 56.6-second test flight. The company began pursuing space technology in 2021, using ...