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Toyota is ‘exploring rockets’

Japanese automaker Toyota is "exploring rockets," chairman Akio Toyoda just announced on stage at CES 2025, while hinting at the idea of moving people

But he showed a rendering on stage of a rocket designed by Interstellar Technologies, a private Japanese spaceflight company that’s working on a small launch vehicle made to put satellites into space. Sean O’Kane is a reporter who has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the transportation industry, including Tesla and the many startups chasing Elon Musk. He previously worked at The Verge, where he also covered consumer technology, hosted many short- and long-form videos, performed product and editorial photography, and once nearly passed out in a Red Bull Air Race plane.

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