A rocket launched by Elon Musk's space research company Specks X is about to land on the moon.
The Falcon 9 booster was launched in 2015, but after completing its mission it did not have enough fuel left to return to Earth, so it remained in space instead of returning.
Astronomer Jonathan McDowell told British media that this would be the first collision of an unmanned rocket with the moon, but that the effects would be minor.
The rocket was launched seven years ago on a mission to send a space weather satellite, after which it was launched into orbit.
The rocket was part of Elon Musk's space research program, SpaceX, a commercial company aimed at exploring the possibility of human habitation on other planets.
McDowell, a professor at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the United States, says that since 2015, the rocket has been pulled by various gravitational forces from the Earth, the Moon and the Sun, causing some confusion. There is no life in it, it is just moving on gravity now.
The rocket has also become one of the millions of other pieces of space debris, consisting of machinery that is left in space when there is not enough energy to return to Earth after completing a mission.
The collision is scheduled for March 4, when the rocket will hit the surface of the moon. According to Professor McDowell, it is basically an empty metal tank of 4 tons, with a rocket engine on the back, but if you throw it on a rock at a speed of 5,000 miles per hour, it will definitely There will be a big explosion, which will create a small artificial crater on the surface of the moon.
