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Out of control SpaceX rocket on collision course with moon

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Out of control SpaceX rocket on collision course with moon
According to experts, a SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after spending nearly seven years hurtling through space. In February 2015, the booster was launched from Florida as part of an interplanetary mission to send a space weather satellite on a million-mile journey.
The rocket's second stage became derelict after completing a long engine burn and sending the NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory on its way to the Lagrange point a gravity-neutral position four times further than the moon and in direct line with the sun.
At this point, it was high enough that it did not have enough fuel to return to Earth's atmosphere but also “lacked the energy to escape the gravity of the Earth-Moon system,” according to meteorologist Eric Berger in a recent post on Ars Technica. Space observers believe the rocket about four metric tons of “space junk”-will collide with the moon in a matter of weeks at a velocity of about 2.58km/s.
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Out of control SpaceX rocket on collision course with moon
According to experts, a SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after spending nearly seven years hurtling through space. In February 2015, the booster was launched from Florida as part of an interplanetary mission to send a space weather satellite on a million-mile journey.
The rocket's second stage became derelict after completing a long engine burn and sending the NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory on its way to the Lagrange point a gravity-neutral position four times further than the moon and in direct line with the sun.
At this point, it was high enough that it did not have enough fuel to return to Earth's atmosphere but also “lacked the energy to escape the gravity of the Earth-Moon system,” according to meteorologist Eric Berger in a recent post on Ars Technica. Space observers believe the rocket about four metric tons of “space junk”-will collide with the moon in a matter of weeks at a velocity of about 2.58km/s.
#spacex #elonmusk #starship
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