A rogue rocket is on course to crash into the Moon. It won't be the first
- Written by: Alice Gorman, Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
Bettmann / ContributorIn a few weeks’ time, a rocket launched in 2015 is expected to crash into the Moon. The fast-moving piece of space junk is the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which hoisted the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite off our planet. It has been chaotically looping around Earth and the Moon ever since.
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