There is no agency that monitors the movement of galaxy debris far from Earth, speaking to the urgent need to closely monitor rocket debris in space, CNN wrote.
An unknown rocket that NASA has been tracking in Earth orbit since 2015 has crashed on the Moon. After that, a new double crater formed on our planet’s satellite, recorded by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter. This was reported by CNN.
The space agency clarified that the first crater measures 18 meters, the second – 16 meters.
“This may indicate that the rocket has large masses at each end: typically, a spent rocket has a mass concentrated at the end of the engine, and the rest of the stage is almost an empty fuel tank,” he explains. of NASA.
They also noticed that the crash of the rocket on the moon came as a surprise to specialists.
NASA admitted they could not identify the rocket that fell on the Earth satellite.
According to the news agency, scientist Bill Gray, who specializes in orbital dynamics, was the first to notice the object and calculate its trajectory. He suggested that it was a SpaceX Falcon rocket stage left over from a launch in 2015. However, Elon Musk denied it, and the researcher later admitted he was mistaken.
The next suggestion was the Chinese lunar mission in 2014. in turn, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied it was a launch vehicle from the Chang’e-5 mission and said the remains of their rocket were burned upon entering the atmosphere of the Earth.
“NASA experts are not suggesting to whom it is, like a heavy rocket that crashed on the Moon, leaving craters here that are comparable in size to other known craters,” the article said.
There is no agency that monitors the movement of galaxy debris far from Earth, and this whole scenario speaks to the urgent need to more closely monitor rocket debris in deep space, CNN concludes.
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