Chinese rocket hits the moon

Saturday, March 5, 2022 Edit

1 day agoThis morning a piece of space junk smacked right into the far side of the moon. Discarded Chinese rocket HITS the moon.

Chinese Rocket Mistaken For A Spacex Upper Stage On A Collision Course With The Moon

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. A much-debated piece of space junk suspected to be part of a Chinese rocket that helped launch a 2014 lunar mission hit the far side of the moon scientists say. 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 to. The debris a piece of a rocket about the size of a school bus had been floating in.

The energy from. Discarded rocket part to hit Moon in hours say scientists. More likely the object was from a Chinese lunar mission according to NASA.

The bus-sized third stage of a. At precisely 72558 am. The third stage of a Long March 3C rocket will hit the moon at about 5700 mph.

It was a booster for the Change 5-T1 mission and launched in 2014 as part of the Chinese space agencys lunar exploration programme. 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. 19 hours agoAstronomers say a rocket likely hit the moon last night based on the law of gravity but experts told UPI on Friday there are currently no plans to.

A rocket will indeed strike the lunar surface on 4 March but contrary to what had been. 1 day agoThe rocket booster was likely hit the Moon at 122558 Universal Time on March 4 2022 Forbes reported. A rocket part expected to collide with the moon on March 4 was wrongly identified as a SpaceX Falcon rocket stage.

The debris may have come from a rocket like this one built by SpaceX. The rocket was used for Change-5 T1 a Chinese lunar mission launched Oct. ET 1225 GMT after spending nearly eight years stumbling across space.

Astronomers think that a rocket booster expected to hit the moon on Friday is Chinese though a Chinese official has denied this. The four-tonne rocket part probably hit the Moons surface at a speed of about 5700 mph. 21 hours agoAn old rocket booster once thought to be the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 but now believed to be from the Chinese Change 5-T1 mission although China denies this slammed into the moons.

An out-of-control spent rocket believed to belong to China is expected to leave a 66ft-wide crater in the moon when it smashes into the lunar surface on Friday. He ran the numbers again and concluded it was the third stage of a. 1 day agoThe discarded rocket stage will be traveling at a blistering 5771 mph 9288 kmh when it hits the Hertzsprung crater on the moons far side at 725 am.

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. 7 hours agoIts possible that an out-of-control rocket the size of a school bus has hit the moon by now. 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.

16 hours agoA chunk of Chinese space junk today crashed into the far side of the Moon according to a maker of astrometry software. 1 day agoMoon crash. It was a booster for.

He ran the numbers again and concluded it was the third stage of a rocket from Chinas lunar mission Change 5-T1 launched in October 2014. EST 1225 GMT Friday. Abandoned rocket hits the Moon - scientists.

According to astronomers the booster rocket was Set to reach the surface of the moon at about 725 am. Three-tonne piece of space junk is likely to have left a 66ft crater after slamming into the lunar. A rocket expected to crash into the moon in early March was built by China not SpaceX it has emerged.

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. This would likely be the first time a man-made object has hit another space object without. 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.

14 hours agoThe object is probably part of a rocket that launched a small Chinese spacecraft called Change 5-T1 towards the Moon in 2014. EST122558 Universal Time today a rocket part launched by China eight years ago should have struck the Moon while traveling at a.

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