The company SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, has received numerous accolades for its technological advances, such as reusable rockets. But it has not escaped criticism either. In recent hours, a study by Bill Gray has determined that a part of a Falcon 9, from the company of the richest man in the world, will crash into the Moon in August. The impact could cause, according to his estimates using the Project Pluto software, a crater 17 meters in diameter.<\/p>\n
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space in January 2025. It was carrying two lunar landers, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost, a United States company, and ispace’s Hakuto-R (Resilience), from Japan. Its mission was accomplished, but the rocket’s upper stage could not return to Earth’s atmosphere and became a wandering object in space. Bill Gray’s calculations have determined that this space debris is heading toward the Moon.<\/p>\n
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The scientist is convinced that the object detected in his observations is part of this rocket. “There is no doubt that it is the Falcon 9 upper stage; we have been tracking it continuously since its launch,” explained Bill Gray. The expert lamented the lack of rigor with which companies handle space debris: “This highlights the negligence with which waste is managed”.<\/p>\n
The exact date when the Falcon 9 will crash into the Moon<\/p>\n
Bill Gray’s estimates determine that the Falcon 9 rocket part will crash into the Moon in August. And he even has an exact date: the 5th. The impact would be equivalent to that of three tons of TNT explosive and would cause a 17-meter-diameter crater on the Moon. This would not be visible from Earth, according to the specialist, not even with large telescopes. Gray also hopes to refine the exact location of the impact when only a few days remain until August 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, has received numerous accolades for its technological advances, such as reusable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,82],"class_list":["post-529194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}