Washington: NASA has said that a rocket abandoned by a private company will collide with the moon next March. US private space agency SpaceX launched a weather monitoring satellite in 2015 with the Falcon 9 rocket. After placing the satellite in orbit, the rocket was unable to return to Earth due to some technical reasons. SpaceX has since announced that it will launch the rocket into space. The Falcon 9 rocket that lost control is orbiting the earth and the moon.
The US space agency NASA has announced that the front of the rocket, called a booster, will collide with the moon. There will be a rocket collision on the surface of the moon on March 4. According to astronauts, the booster, which weighs about 4 tons, is traveling towards the moon at a speed of 9290 km per hour. NASA has said that this is not the first time that waste materials, including spare parts for a rocket orbiting in space, have collided with the moon, and that the Falcon 9 rocket collision is unlikely to have major consequences. However, astronauts say the crater will be 30 to 60 feet deep on the moon’s surface, echoing the impact of the rocket collision.