
Hayabusa
They're doing very well with this, need <icon>
SpaceX's next ISS-bound launch was delayed, a new asteroid crater was made and some stamps for Apollo nostalgia fiends landed. El Reg has collated the past week's event in space for your delectation. SpaceX slippages While the famously taciturn company continued to pick up the pieces left over from the 'anomaly' that resulted …
So the testing of the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator worked.
But does the Hayabusa2 now have an unobstructed view of Venus one wonders?
Yet at the same time, I understand that they're the 5th-biggest advanced aerospace manufacturing region in the world.
You've got guys (and ladies, of course) with incredibly well-equipped sheds who spend a dozen weeks of the year making two- and three-wheeled things go incredibly quickly, and the rest of the time doing high-tech stuff to pay for it all.