Not to alarm you, but a SpaceX Falcon 9 second-stage rocket booster is on track to crash into the moon.
you, but a SpaceX Falcon 9 second-stage rocket booster is on track to crash into the moon. The giant tin can has been careening around the Earth and moon since it deployed a space weather-monitoring spacecraft for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2015. Now its wandering will end when it smashes into the far side of the moon on, according to projections by Bill Gray, who writes software for tracking near-Earth objects.
“Every year, there’s a couple of school bus-sized things that come within 100 meters of colliding. And if they did, it would be an order of magnitude worse than the worst anti-satellite test,” says Brian Weeden, director of program planning at the Secure World Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank based in Broomfield, Colorado.
And those are just the ones in low Earth orbit. Similar challenges apply further out in space, even if there’s more room to work with. “Any time we put something into interplanetary orbit, or deep space sensors or something like that, there’s likely a booster associated with it. Space is so vast that people never think about it,” says Bruce McClintock, head of the Space Enterprise Initiative of the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit research organization based in Santa Monica, California.
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