Japan’s winged reusable small rocket plans to take off and land like airplane
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Space Walker, a Japanese startup, aims to launch the Eco Rocket, Japan's first private spaceplane, by 2026. The company plans to use carbon-neutral biomethane propellant and a lightweight composite cryogenic tank to make space travel more accessible and sustainable, with goals for suborbital tourism by 2030 and point-to-point orbital travel by the 2040s.
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