{"id":19383,"date":"2026-08-06T04:46:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=19383"},"modified":"2026-08-06T04:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:46:35","slug":"four-tons-of-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-debris-carve-a-fresh-crater-near-einstein-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=19383","title":{"rendered":"Four Tons of SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Debris Carve a Fresh Crater Near Einstein on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After drifting aimlessly for more than a year and a half, a discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage finally ran out of empty space on Wednesday. The four-ton cylinder, roughly the size of a school bus and more than 40 feet long, slammed into the Moon at 5,400 miles per hour near Einstein Crater on the sunlit western limb.<\/p>\n

SpaceX launched a rocket from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on January 15, 2025. The aim was to launch two private lunar landers, Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Blue Ghost and ispace\u2019s Resilience, on a path to the Moon. Blue Ghost landed safely on the Moon\u2019s surface, and then there was Resilience. Unfortunately, Resilience didn\u2019t fare so well. Once the top stage had completed its burn and jettisoned the landers, it had no further instructions and insufficient fuel for any course correction. It was just lying there, floating, until the combined force of the sun\u2019s gravity, the Earth\u2019s gravity, and solar activity gradually began to alter its route, and the Moon became the inevitable destination.<\/p>\n

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    \nBill Gray, a skilled amateur astronomer who first raised the alarm a few months ago with available orbital data, calculated the impact window. When the time arrived for astronomers all across the world to focus their telescopes at the anticipated impact zone, they were unable to see anything. That was due to the fact that the impact zone was on the edge of the moon\u2019s near side during daylight hours, which was not optimal for terrestrial observers. Marco Langbroek, a Dutch astronomer, trained in the area but discovered nothing, believing it was a long shot even before. Still, he believes the stage made it.<\/p>\n