After seven years flying through space, a Space X Falcon 9 rocket is on a collision course with the Moon . The impact is scheduled for March 4.
The four-tonne booster was originally launched from Florida in February 2015 as part of an interplanetary mission to send up a space weather satellite, but after sending NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory on its way to the point of Lagrange, the second stage of the rocket was abandoned and was too far away to return to the Earth's atmosphere (it had no fuel). So it has been traveling through a chaotic orbit ever since.
dumping space junk on the moon
It will collide with the Moon, towards which it is heading at a speed of approximately 2.58 km/s, in early March, according to astronomers, who believe that the upper stage of Falcon 9 will probably collide with the far side of the Moon. moon, near the equator, although it is difficult to say precisely.
If the prediction is correct, it will even allow satellites currently orbiting the moon, including NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, to collect observations about the impact crater and the Moon's geology.
