Part of SpaceX’s rocket crashes into the Moon

They talk about it, among other things BBC, CNN and news agency AP.

The Falcon 9 rocket was launched into space in January 2025. The rocket sent various research equipment and one rover towards the moon, which, however, broke up during landing.

Now the upper part of the rocket is about to hit the Moon. The US magazine Sky & Telescope reported previously the upper stage being 13.8 meters long and 3.7 meters in diameter. It travels up to 8,700 kilometers per hour.

The upper stage is expected to collide with the surface of the Moon in the vicinity of the Einstein crater, CNN reports.

Previously independent astronomers found that some had unintentionally drifted on a collision course with the Moon. After this, Nasa also came to the same assessment, the BBC reports.

“There is no danger to the Earth,” a NASA spokesperson Jimi Russell said according to the BBC.

According to Russell, NASA will continue to monitor the rocket’s phases and later plans to examine the impact site for scientific studies.

Cantabrigian the university’s astronomy expert Matt Bothwell tells the BBC that the collision could raise a huge cloud of dust that could rise to a height of more than 50 kilometers and over time spread widely above the surface of the Moon.

Although the collision is unlikely to be visible to the naked eye from Earth, with a sufficiently powerful telescope, a flash of light may be seen from the surface of the Moon, Bothwell estimated for the magazine.

According to the AP news agency, the best observation opportunities are in the eastern parts of the United States and Canada. The dust and rock material thrown into space by the collision may reach a height of several kilometers and be visible with telescopes for a few minutes, the magazine says, referring to expert opinions.

Human pieces sent into space have collided with the Moon before.

It happened for the first time already in 1959, when the Luna 2 probe sent into space by the Soviet Union hit the Moon.

According to experts, watching the part that hits the Moon on Wednesday morning will be interesting especially because there is even more space debris moving around the Moon. The development of their monitoring and management becomes even more important.

The collision is above all a sign that similar events will probably become more common.

The BBC refers to data from the European Space Agency (ESA), according to which there are already around 54,000 man-made objects larger than 10 centimeters in space.