SpaceX lost control of a rocket 7 years ago and will hit the Moon

On By Garmin Philip

As Elon Musk’s company gets ever closer to creating a perfect rocket, one of his old launches is about to explode against the Moon at 7,000 km/h.

A mission launched by SpaceX in 2015 to send the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Deep Space Climate Observatory into a distant orbit completed all the necessary deployment steps. Until a last minute failure threw everything to the ground.

Lack of fuel prevented the second-stage booster from reaching Earth’s atmosphere., causing it to tumble through space in a chaotic orbit (you can feel like an astronaut for free here).

But their erratic seven-year journey looks set to come to an abrupt end in early March, when the four-tonne rocket crashes into the Moon at 7,000km/h (which is almost worse than the bankruptcy they’re facing).

After analyzing all the data, astronomer Bill Gray, who also develops near-Earth object tracking software, has concluded that Falcon 9’s second stage, out of control, will impact the lunar surface on March 4.

Commenting on the accuracy of the predicted impact date, Gray wrote on his website: “If it were a rock, I’d be 100% sure… But space debris can be a bit tricky.“.

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Gray said he hopes to calculate the impact site as accurately as possible in the hope that NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and India’s Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter can photograph the impact site for further study.

Is the first time a man-made object has unintentionally crashed onto the lunar surface, keep track, of course.

According to NASA, the last controlled impact took place in 2009., when a NASA Centaur rocket and accompanying probe were sent hurtling toward the Moon on a mission to locate water in Earth’s nearest neighbor.

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SpaceX is currently developing landing gear for NASA’s upcoming Artemis missions, which will mark the first crewed lunar landing in five decades.

However, next month’s collision means that a piece of SpaceX equipment will arrive on the Moon well ahead of schedule, another mini-dot for Elon Musk.

Reference-computerhoy.com