spacedaily.com reported Wednesday that a stage of SpaceX’s Falcon-9 launch vehicle will hit the moon within weeks.
On February 11, 2015, Elon Musk Falcon launched the US Space Agency’s Deep Space Climate Observatory. This ended at the Lagrange point, 1-1.5 million km from us. This was the first time a falcon had ventured into space, according to the site.
The second stage of the missile contained little fuel for return and landing on a drone, which was actually the goal. Instead, the four-ton staircase will hit the moon on March 4 at a speed of about 1.5 miles per second.
It will be the first time an “uncontrolled rocket” has hit the Moon, says famed astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell of Harvard University. According to him, the effects of this will be “negligible.” However, the collision would create an artificial crater on the moon’s surface. “Over the decades, there may have been as many as 50 large rockets that we lost after launching into space,” McDowell explains, noting that there are millions of pieces of space junk. It’s possible that rockets have hit the moon before, but we simply didn’t know anything about that. This will be the first time we know about it.
On February 11, 2015, Elon Musk Falcon launched the US Space Agency’s Deep Space Climate Observatory. This ended at the Lagrange point, 1-1.5 million km from us. This was the first time a falcon had ventured into space, according to the site. The second stage of the missile contained little fuel for return and landing on a drone, which was actually the goal. Instead, the four-ton staircase will hit the moon on March 4 at a speed of about 1.5 miles per second. It will be the first time an “uncontrolled rocket” has hit the Moon, says famed astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell of Harvard University. According to him, the effects of this will be “negligible.” However, the collision would create an artificial crater on the moon’s surface. “Over the decades, there may have been as many as 50 large rockets that we lost after launching into space,” McDowell explains, noting that there are millions of pieces of space junk. It’s possible that rockets have hit the moon before, but we simply didn’t know anything about that. This will be the first time we know about it.
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