NASA has announced that the top of a rocket known as a booster will collide with the moon next month (March 4).
Record: February 01, 2022 05:28
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US private space agency SpaceX launched a weather monitoring satellite in 2015 with the Falcon 9 rocket.
The satellite must be launched into space and the rocket must return to Earth. But for some reason the rocket failed to return to Earth and was dropped into space. Since then this rocket has been orbiting the earth and the moon in a chaotic manner.
The US space agency NASA has announced that the top of the rocket, known as the booster, will collide with the moon next month (March 4). The booster, which weighs 4 tons, travels at 9,000 km / h towards the moon. Scientists say it is traveling at speed and will cause a large crater on the moon when it collides.
However, scientists say that the event could not be seen from Earth because the booster collided with the back of the moon. This is not the first time space debris, including an abandoned rocket, has collided with the moon, which is expected to have no major impact.
Thus some astronauts say that this phenomenon of a rocket colliding with the moon is not a big deal. At the same time, NASA described the event as “an opportunity for exciting research.”