Chinese rocket hits the moon

A Chinese rocket thats been in space for seven years not an American SpaceX Falcon 9 stage as previously reported will smash itself to pieces when it hits the far side of the moon on March 4. Image caption The rocket booster can be seen tracking across the sky right-to-left.

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The leftover rocket will smash into the far side of the moon at 5800mph.

. 1 day agoPart of a rocket weighing three tons is thought to have smashed into the far side of the moon at approximately 725 am. Discarded Chinese rocket HITS the moon. 1 day agoPeter Birtwhistle.

18 hours agoAN OUT-OF-CONTROL rocket part the size of a school bus has likely smashed into the Moons surface by now. The trash is believed to be a spent Long March 3C rocket booster from the launch of Change 5-T1 a Chinese experimental robotic spacecraft that lifted off in 2014The leftover component was estimated to have smashed into the Moon at 1225 UTC on Friday after hurtling through. Three-tonne piece of space junk is likely to have left a 66ft crater after slamming into the lunar.

According to astronomers a rocket booster was set to hit the lunar surface at around 7. Remnants of a Chinese rocket are expected to hit the moon on Friday. 21 hours agoA chunk of Chinese space junk today crashed into the far side of the Moon according to a maker of astrometry software.

After years of zooming through deep space a presumed leftover piece of a Chinese rocket slammed into the Moon today just as space tracking experts expected it would. Chinese Rocket Strikes Far Side Of The Moon. 2 days agoA booster from a Chinese rocket is on course to slam into the side of the moon on March 4 a University of Arizona team confirmed.

Expected To Create 20-metre-wide Crater The Chinese rocket weighing approximately 4 tonnes and moving at a speed of 9300 kilometres per hour was predicted to crash into the Moon at 555 pm IST. In a statement from UArizona the rocket originally thought to. A discarded part of a rocket is hours away from crashing into the Moon say scientists who.

Its been tumbling haphazardly through space.

Chinese Rocket S Moon Crash Won T Be Dangerous But Raises Questions Experts Say South China Morning Post