The rocket from Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX was launched in 2015.
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Washington According to calculations by scientists at the US space agency Nasa, part of a SpaceX rocket could collide with the moon in early March. The trajectory of the “Falcon 9” rocket stage is currently being observed, a Nasa spokeswoman told the German Press Agency on Thursday.
The rocket was launched in 2015 from the Cape Canaveral spaceport and brought the Deep Space Climate Observatory, an earth observation satellite, into space. After that, however, the rocket stage didn’t have enough fuel to get back to Earth, which is why it has been in space ever since.
On its current trajectory, the rocket stage will hit the far side of the moon on March 4, according to NASA. Several US scientists had previously drawn attention to this. SpaceX, Elon Musk’s private space company, which works a lot with NASA, initially did not respond to a request.