SpaceX rocket crashes into the moon after drifting off course
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A discarded SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon late Tuesday night after drifting through space for more than a year, leaving behind what scientists believe is a fresh impact crater and a plume of debris.
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SpaceX rocket expected to collide with moon, leave 16-foot crater
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SpaceX rocket crashes into the moon after drifting off course
The upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket is now zooming through space at 5,400 mph on a direct collision course with the moon. It will leave a small crater and a plume of lunar debris near Einstein Crater, on the sunlit western limb of the moon. You may think that’s fine. It is not, not really.
A decommissioned SpaceX rocket that got off course is expected to slam into the moon at 5,400 miles per hour on Wednesday morning. The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will likely crash into the moon at 2:35 a.m.
A drifting SpaceX rocket stage is expected to crash into the moon early Wednesday, creating a crater and dust plume visible from parts of the Americas.
An upcoming collision of a Falcon 9 rocket part with the moon may be visible from Earth with telescopes, new research suggests. Here's what scientists and skywatchers are hoping to see.
The Falcon 9 upper stage that launched Firefly's Blue Ghost and ispace's Resilience in January 2025 had no propellant left for a disposal burn. Nineteen months of gravity and solar pressure made a lunar impact unavoidable.
A SpaceX rocket is on track to crash into the moon on Wednesday at 2:35 a.m. EDT. The 8,800-pound SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will collide with the moon at a speed of 5,400 mph, experts say. The impact will create a crater spanning approximately 89 feet, or 27 meters, wide. The crash is expected to...
SpaceX said one of its Falcon 9 rockets launched last year will crash on the moon early Wednesday morning, leaving a crater about 90 feet in diameter in its wake. The 8,800-pound rocket booster has been orbiting the moon since January 2025.
A SpaceX rocket weighing more than 8,000 pounds is set to hit the moon Wednesday in a rare man-made collision with the lunar surface. CBS News' Mark Strassmann has the story.
A wayward fragment from a SpaceX rocket that has been floating in space since last year will unintentionally smash into the moon early Wednesday morning in a rare human-made lunar collision. The school-bus-sized SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster, now an abandoned piece of space debris, is on trajectory…
FILE – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 39A with a payload of a pair of lunar landers at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Jan. 15, 2025.
A four-tonne piece of a SpaceX rocket is believed to have unintentionally crashed into the Moon on August 5, a collision that posed no danger to Earth but is expected to leave behind a lunar crater. While there is not yet official confirmation that the Falcon 9 upper stage struck the lunar surface, …
A discarded upper stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket crashed into the moon early Wednesday morning, traveling at about 5,400 miles per hour. The impact is believed to have occurred at around 2:35 a.m. ET near the moon’s Einstein crater.
While the collision was an accident, it is a unique scientific gift for planetary geologists that could provide important data for future space missions.
A SpaceX rocket booster slammed into the moon early Wednesday. The 8,800-pound Falcon 9 rocket booster had been floating about in space since January 2025, according to CBS News. The […]
A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage unintentionally slammed into the moon after drifting through space for more than a year, according to The Guardian. While the collision was unplanned, scientists say it has created a rare opportunity to study the lunar surface and serves as another reminder o…
SpaceX has finally reached the Moon, just not the way Elon Musk planned. A discarded upper stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket slammed into the lunar surface early Wednesday at roughly 8,700 kilometers per hour, or 5,400 mph, ending […] The post SpaceX rocket crashes into the Moon at 8,700 km/h, car…
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