The caption simply explains: “Alternative wide view of the Chang’e booster impact with the Moon (sic) on March 4th, 2022.” The video was posted to YouTube by AGI, An Ansys Company. However, experts have now created a physics-based simulation video showing how the crash likely happened.
The rocket was heading for a collision with the dark side of the moon so “live” coverage of the event wasn’t possible. These satellites could photograph any crater that resulted from the collision We won’t know that it hit the moon for sure until two satellites that orbit the moon pass over the possible impact site. I had the worst tattoo experience – it got infected and I ended up in the hospital, then the artist traumatized me moreįuming woman roasted for pushing old lady off her as she touched her pregnancy bump in a store – so who’s in the right?Īn unruly chunk of rocket debris is thought to have crashed into the moon.Īstronomers believe that the rocket piece, which experts have said originated in China, hit the lunar surface in the early hours of March 4. Seeing what kind of matter and debris ejects up out of the ground from the Moon could provide insights to scientists on Earth interested in understanding the geology of the Earth’s rocky neighbor.NASA reveals date for Moon mission this month that will lead way for first woman on lunar surfaceĪsteroid-pulverizing system may be only way to save Earth from doomsday space rock While the impact won’t be visible on Earth, Moon-orbiting spacecraft such as NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft could capture the unique crash. Current forecasts by astronomers suggest the rocket will crash into the middle of the “dark side” of the Moon. Scientists are eager to see what happens when something as heavy as this out-of-control rocket smashes into the Moon this event is considered the first time a spacecraft has unintentionally crashed into the Moon. The dry mass of this second stage rocket is about 4 metric tons or roughly 8,800 pounds. And without an atmosphere like the Earth’s to slow it down and/or burn it up, the SpaceX rocket is expected to crash into the Moon at a high velocity. But new analysis shows the Moon’s orbit will interfere with that trajectory, with the out-of-control rocket striking it instead of Earth. The spent rocket also lacks the energy required to escape the gravity created by both the Earth and Moon as such, it’s been falling about in a chaotic orbit for the last almost-7 years.įor some time, it looked like the SpaceX rocket would eventually tumble back to Earth and burn-up upon re-entry. SpaceX founder Elon Musk had Tweeted at the time, “Rocket soft landed in the ocean within 10m of target and nicely vertical!”īut the Falcon 9’s second stage rocket which successfully put the DSCOVR rocket in its appropriate transfer orbit lacked enough fuel to return and burn-up in the Earth’s atmosphere. However, due to bad weather at sea, SpaceX canceled that landing, instead bringing the first stage back into the ocean at a somewhat later time.
The first stage was scheduled to return to Earth and land on a SpaceX drone barge parked in the Atlantic. The satellite is designed to serve as an early-warning system for solar storms, some of which can damage electrical and communications systems on Earth, astronauts in near-Earth orbit, and satellites that orbit around the Earth. On February 11, 2015, SpaceX launched the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) into space atop its Falcon 9 reusable rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. But unlike previous out-of-control rockets from Russia or China in recent months, this SpaceX rocket is due to crash into the Moon. Photograph: WeatherboyĪn out-of-control SpaceX rocket is forecast to crash on March 4 it should be traveling at a brisk 5,770 mph when it hits the ground. A rocket just like it lifted off from another launch pad at Cape Canaveral in February 2017, and its second stage rocket is out-of-control and due to crash in March on the Moon. A SpaceX Falcon rocket sits on Launch Pad 39A the night before its historic first launch there on February 19, 2017.