For the first time a Human Object impacting the moon unintentionally.

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For the first time a Human Object impacting the moon unintentionally.



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Spacex, Elon Musk's space company, is the pioneer in the technology that allows them to reuse rockets after use to transport payloads that can be satellites, commercial, government, more than 2,000 satellites of his starling company to provide internet in remote areas and even a tesla Roadster.


Thanks to this reusability capacity, they have managed to lower their launch costs to the point of monopolizing the market, this is positive, profitability is important because before, every time we sent something into orbit, the rockets that had already exhausted their fuel simply stayed there. , in low orbit where there is still a bit of atmosphere that can slow down the objects making them fall back to earth, this is not a problem, sooner or later they end up falling.




But in higher orbits we have a lot of drifting rocket bodies without fuel, many of which we have no idea where they are or whose orbits are too unpredictable, which is obviously a danger to other objects in orbit, of course. In fact, the problem is not only that the objects can collide with other objects in orbit, but that the remaining pressure in the tanks of these exhausted rockets can cause them to explode without warning, which could produce not one but a lot of dangerous objects.


SpaceX let's just say they solved the problem as their first stage rockets are basically Drones that come back and re-land with impressive reliability and their second stages which is what keeps on propelling the payload once the first stage rockets detach they are left with enough fuel to make it return through a controlled re-entry, meaning they know when and where it is going to fall, and generally they do so over an area of ​​the Pacific where the remnants that survive the re-entry won't hit anything.



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But not all of its missions can afford to return their second stages. That was the case with the Discover Mission, NASA's deep space weather observatory launched in 2015, the Falcon 9 rocket had to take it one million six hundred thousand kilometers. far beyond the distance of the moon and by the time it left the observatory at its final destination lagrange point 1, the second stage of the rocket had already exhausted all its fuel so it separated and drifted for 7 years being pushed and pulled by the gravities of the earth the moon and the sun that made their orbit chaotic and difficult to predict until now because we know that on March 4 at 12: 25:58 in the afternoon.


The second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket will impact on the surface of the moon at 9,300 kilometers per hour, having a mass of 4 tons, the energy of the impact could raise a cloud of debris that could affect other missions orbiting the moon, such as India's chandrayaan 2 and nasa's lunar reconnaissance observatory on the moon unlike on earth there is no atmosphere so there is nothing to stop or destroy the object before it hits the surface as if it happens here where the friction of the air ends up destroying the rocks space stars that are what we know as shooting stars.





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