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Momo-3 is Japan's first private rocket to reach space
- deepnotderp 7y agoNote that this was not an orbital flight but rather a sounding rocket.
- faitswulff 7y agoCan anyone shed light on whatever is going on with the audio in the video? It sounds vaguely like counting if the counting were done by some sort of creepy bunny cartoon.
- Arnavion 7y agoIt's Hatsune Miku, a synthesized computer voice. https://blog.piapro.net/2019/04/z1904231-1.html https://blog.piapro.net/2019/04/z1904231-1.html
- kache_ 7y agoNever change, japan
- b_tterc_p 7y agoShe does “hologram” concerts. https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/04/waving-glow-sticks-at-hologram-anime-pop-stars-our-night-with-hatsune-miku/%3famp=1 https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/04/... Not real holograms but interesting still. Apparently some ARkit stuff recently
- 1PlayerOne 7y agoYou can take it to the bank, the Japanese will never change unless coerced, by the US Military after world war II for instance.
- lovemenot 7y agoYes, counting down and then counting up again
- SiempreViernes 7y agoThough there's some weird reverb or similar going on too I think, not simply the odd choice of a synthesized speaker for the countdown.
- eastWestMath 7y agoMaybe you should specify “aerospace”...
- ecpottinger 7y agoDrats, I was hoping the anime "Rocket Girls" would move to real life.
- jpatokal 7y agoSince the name of founder Takafumi Horie may not ring many bells outside a Japanese audience, let's just say he's a colorful character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takafumi_Horie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takafumi_Horie
- ihccobirotih 7y agoThe veracity of the suspicions aside, many smelled conspiracy given the timing of the action. It was seen as a political move by defenders of the status quo to punish Horie for daring to challenge them, and to discredit him and the business practices he had come to represent, which Horie's opponents considered distasteful and "un-Japanese". I mean, considering we have been hearing a lot of stories about karoshi & the pervasive seniority culture lately, I think I am siding on his side a lot more, given that even people feels like the yakuza did a much better job at welfare sometimes.
- mkl 7y agoIndenting with spaces turns on code formatting. Please don't format text as code; it's unreadable on mobile. Here's the quote: > The veracity of the suspicions aside, many smelled conspiracy given the timing of the action. It was seen as a political move by defenders of the status quo to punish Horie for daring to challenge them, and to discredit him and the business practices he had come to represent, which Horie's opponents considered distasteful and "un-Japanese".
- SiempreViernes 7y agoSo do you assert that both the district court and the supreme court were part of a conspiracy to discredit an entrepreneur? Or merely that the prosecutor got an accurate tip-off from some hostile party?
- hrktb 7y agoNot completely sharing the GP's point of view, but I also think there is more than meets the eyes. It could be a combination of most players in the field being in an illegal state in some way or another (not by accident, just that fraud is the norm) and they decided to enforce the rules on one specific company at a strategic time, while the rest of the industry hums along unscratched.
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- eatonphil 7y agoThe article's title is more clear; this is about a space company.
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoPerhaps biased, but my initial thought when I see the word "launch" (without context, such as this title) is a software product launch of some kind.
- Causality1 7y ago"Go straight up until you leave the atmosphere and then fall down" is a radically different proposition than reaching orbit. You could lift an unprotected human being to space with a 700kg rocket. Getting him to orbit would require a 9,000kg rocket.
- walrus01 7y agoYes, exactly, amateurs have gone well above 100km (62.5 miles). https://rocketry.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/amateur-rocket-team-launches-rocket-to-73-1-miles/ https://rocketry.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/amateur-rocket-tea...
- cyberfart 7y agoTo be clear, only one amateur rocketry team (the one in the link) ever made it to space.
- plugger 7y agoAnd to be honest a reasonable portion of that team was made up of aerospace professionals. You kinda expect to win your local basketball comp if you have a team with more than one NBA player slumming it for the love of the game.
- tqkxzugoaupvwqr 7y agoDoes the rocket drift away from the launchpad right after launch and for the first couple of seconds, or is it an optical illusion? It appeared to me as if the rocket was imbalanced until it gained enough speed.
- paparush 7y agoI also thought it had a lot of lateral movement.
- walrus01 7y agoGetting to space for 8 minutes in a parabolic trajectory is not hard, it's the 7800-8200m/s delta v thrusting horizontally to achieve a real orbit that's difficult. I've seen amateurs launching garage built rockets from the Nevada desert hit 80km...
- needle0 7y agoWhile this is awesome, I wonder why we hear a lot about businessmen who score big then funneling their wealth into moonshot projects about space exploration (Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Takafumi Horie, etc), but hardly ever on medical science and life extension. To me that seems like a much more urgent and personally relevant issue - I mean, without advancing the state of the art on those fields, even those rich & powerful men are all going to be dead in a mere 120 years. Why don't they seem to be doing much to address that when they're in the rare position to be able to do so? *Edit: Richard Branson of Virgin Group, not Charles Bronson.
- mc32 7y agoDo you mean Richard Branson rather than the actor known as Charles Bronson? That said, lots of people are benefactors of health and medicine. Maybe they don’t get the same notoriety, but maybe they weren’t looking for it either.
- needle0 7y agoAck, you're right, Charles Bronson.
- dtwest 7y agoBoth the wealthy and society as a whole spend way more on medical science than space. It's fairly common in the US for every wing of a hospital or every building in a medical school to be named after some rich businessman who is doing just that.
- michaelmior 7y agoBill and Melinda Gates being notable exceptions of course.