Chinese rocket hits the moon

Bill Gray who writes the popular Project Pluto software to track near-Earth objects originally reported that the junk was a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage launched from Florida in February 2015. China has since cast doubt on this theory by denying that the spent rocket booster was debris from its Change 5-T1 mission launched in 2014.

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The rocket stage regardless of its origin story is still expected to slam into the far side of the moon on March 4 at 725 am.

. 2 days agoA rocket part thats been careering around space for years is set to collide with the moon on Friday the first time a chunk of space junk has unintentionally slammed into the. Change-4 the Chinese lander that touched down on Jan. So the rocket about to hit the Moon it turns out is not the one we thought it was.

The now believe it actually the remnants of a Chinese rocket that will plunge to the lunar surface. 7 hours agoA chunk of Chinese space junk today crashed into the far side of the Moon according to a maker of astrometry software. No matter whose it.

Space junk piece set to hit the moon is likely from a Chinese rocket not SpaceX WEKU Astronomers noticed it was unlikely the piece of space junk was from the Falcon 9 launch in 2015 due to the gap between the rockets trajectory and object. It was a booster for the Change 5-T1 mission and launched in 2014 as part of the Chinese space agencys lunar exploration programme. Astronomers first thought the rocket part had been launched by Elon Musks SpaceX programme then.

10 hours agoGray discovered in January that the discarded rocket section would crash into the moon. He ran the numbers again and concluded it was the third stage of a. A rocket will indeed strike the lunar surface on 4 March but.

ET on March 4. 2 days agoThe moon Space junk on collision course with the moon likely a Chinese rocket experts Space junk to smash into the far side of the moon at 5800mph on Friday and it may take weeks even months. Astronomers think that a rocket booster expected to hit the moon on Friday is Chinese though a Chinese official has denied this.

Three-tonne piece of space junk is likely to have left a 66ft crater after slamming into the lunar surface at. 4 hours agoThe rocket booster was likely hit the Moon at 122558 Universal Time on March 4 2022 Forbes reported. 3 2019 the first successful landing on the far side.

The rocket which is as heavy as an Asian elephant is set to strike the surface of the far side of the moon on March 4. The trash is believed to be a spent Long March 3C rocket booster from the launch of Change 5-T1 a Chinese experimental robotic spacecraft that lifted off in 2014The leftover component was estimated to have smashed into the Moon at. 1 day agoMoon crash.

Discarded rocket part to hit Moon in hours say scientists. The four-tonne rocket part probably hit the Moons surface at a speed of about 5700 mph. The rocket stage is expected to hit the moon at 726 am.

We took a spectrum which can reveal the material makeup of an object and compared it with Chinese and SpaceX rockets of similar types and it matches the Chinese rocket says Vishnu Reddy University of Arizona who led the observations with his students. The rocket which is as heavy as an Asian elephant is set to strike the surface of the far side of the moon on March 4. 4 hours agoThe object is probably part of a rocket that launched a small Chinese spacecraft called Change 5-T1 towards the Moon in 2014.

However the impact will be on the far side of the moon and not visible from Earth. Search QueryShow Search How to Listen Simple Online Listening Listening Options FAQ In-Home Streaming. The piece of old space junk expected to crash into the moon in early March that was originally thought to be from SpaceX is actually an old Chinese rocket multiple astronomers believe.

Astronomers had believed that the rockets second stage was set to crash into the moon next month. 1 day agoMany experts now think that the junk which has been hurtling around space for more than seven years is the spent upper stage of a rocket launched during one. It was a booster for the Change 5-T1 mission and launched in 2014 as part.

A discarded part of a rocket is hours away from crashing into the Moon say scientists who first predicted the collision in January. Discarded Chinese rocket HITS the moon. It deployed its Yutu-2 rover which is exploring the South PoleAitken basin the.

But later he and others in the. The three-tonne rocket part which is hurtling through space at 5800mph is expected to hit at 1225 on Friday. Gray with others preliminarily identified the object as a stray piece of the Falcon 9 rocket that launched the DSCOVR spacecraft.

Mon 14 Feb 2022 2156 EST A rocket expected to crash into the moon in early March was built by China not SpaceX it has emerged. Object was actually more likely to be Change 5-T1 rocket. The rocket will likely disintegrate on.

At first he thought it was a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage launched in 2015.

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