[api_or_ipa]

Watching the video, when the rocket lifted-off, it stood on a couple small risers. When it landed, the risers were gone. Did someone run out there and grab them?

[feoren]

Despite the other comments, the landing spot is clearly the same as where it took off. Take a screenshot at 0:09 and one at 0:48 and you can see that it's most certainly the same pad. The camera has moved slightly to the left on the landing, that's all.

Someone must have run out and grabbed the risers.

[Kye]

>> "Despite the other comments, the landing spot is clearly the same as where it took off."

Nope.

https://global.honda/en/topics/2025/c_2025-06-17ceng/image_d...

Video three and four clearly show it lands a little bit away from the risers. Same pad, but only 1/2 comments--not mine--suggested it was a different pad.

[close04]

In this video [0] at the 50-51s mark you can see the rocket landing just meters away from what looks like the 4 metal standoffs it took off from.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:73...

[Kye]

I can't tell whether you're agreeing or disagreeing, or something else. You said exactly what I said in response to the comment where I said it. Can you clarify?

[numpad0]

This is Taiki site, so either within the circular pad at (42.500394123580, 143.43589082745), or maybe from the end of 08R to neighboring Interstellar Tech pad area?

1: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BhfWBSBWgPQaa64g7

[Kye]

I thought that at first when I went looking for it, but the pad in the video from the rocket's perspective is an octagon. It's more consistent with this: https://www.google.com/maps/search/honda/@42.5442372,143.493...

The surrounding features are a match.

[numpad0]

Thanks, that seems more like it...

> Honda専用 再使用型ロケット実験設備

> Honda dedicated reusable rocket experiment facility

yup

[CMay]

I don't think they moved or were taken. It appeared that the rocket took off from the corner of the pad and landed in the center, with one camera angle for the corner launch and one camera angle for the central landing. So, I assume the risers are still exactly where they were, they're just outside of the camera frame.

If you look at the landing shot, you can see that towards the corner are some markings for previous risers which were used for previous launches (or markings for future risers for future launches). The risers it launched from this time are just in a different corner.

[Kye]

I think the landing spot is different from where it took off from. The trees in the landing shot weren't there in the takeoff shot.

[sprkv5]

the lift off spot is at the edge of the launch pad, whereas the landing spot is at the center of the launch pad.

[edit] the camera angle and the camera height from the ground is different as well between the lift off and landing.

[Kye]

Taking another look, I see four little rectangles that seem to match the risers close to the camera at the landing, but far from the rocket. I think they may have actually retracted. That would be neat.

It makes more sense than someone going out and grabbing them during the short flight. Those things would need to be sturdy and attached to not melt or blow away during the launch, and they would be hot.

edit: If you open up the first image on the submission and look to the left of the crane, you can see what look like the risers. They do seem to come out of the ground. You can see the same trees as the landing shot.

edit: I didn't realize the page had more videos under the Download button. I was wrong about the rectangles, but you can definitely see it's landing in a different spot in the onboard video (#3). You can still see the risers when it lands.

[pavel_lishin]

It may not have landed on the same pad it took off from.