SpaceX company, of which Elon Musk is the CEO, has undertaken many space projects since its establishment in 2002. The company launched the Falcon 9 rocket in 2015 as part of its projects. The rocket had safely left the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite at Langrange 1, its mission location. However, the next part of the work for Falcon 9 did not go as expected.
Falcon 9 rocket, which is the second stage of the project, had a malfunction in its return and did not have enough fuel on its way back. Since then, it has spiraled out of control and randomly through space. A few weeks ago, it was said that the rocket would hit the Moon on March 4.
Not Falcon 9, but a Chinese rocket will hit the Moon
Although Elon Musk is loved by some with his projects, he is criticized by many. When the issue of Falcon 9 hitting the Moon came to the fore in the past weeks, especially the European press threw Musk on the ball. However, there was a small mistake in the multiplication.
Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon, Bill Gray, who wrote the Project Pluto software that will track objects such as meteorites and comets moving close to Earth, said. After the news that occupied the space agenda, Gray stated that he was wrong. The software developer included the following sentences in his statement on his website.
Knowing the identities of high-flying space junk often takes some detective work. An astronomer in Brazil suggested in a news group that the object orbited the earth and that it could be a man-made object. I thought it was either DSCOVR or some piece of hardware associated with it. But I had trouble finding any data on the rocket’s trajectory. The previous candidate launch was the Chang’e 5-T1 mission, which launched on October 23, 2014 at 18:00 UTC.
The Chang’e 5-T1 mission was launched on a Long March 3C rocket in October 2014. According to astronomers, the launch time and orbit of the Moon are almost exactly the same as the orbit of the object that will hit the Moon in March. Gray stated that he is convinced that the object that is about to hit the Moon is actually the Chang’e 5-T1 rocket.
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