A SpaceX moon crash is set for August 2026. Learn how NASA is asking for public help to observe the upcoming Falcon 9 impact.
This update covers the specific trajectory of the SpaceX rocket and what the planned moon impact means for current space exploration efforts. If you follow aerospace developments or want to know how citizen scientists can contribute to NASA moon observation projects, this report provides the essential facts.
We break down the timeline for the Falcon 9 launch and the subsequent collision path. You will walk away with a clear understanding of why this event is significant and the specific window of time researchers are tracking for the SpaceX rocket.
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The U.S. is going to attack aliens on the moon in August.
Well, not quite.
A SpaceX rocket is going to crash into the moon this summer.
And NASA wants your help observing the impact.
On August 5th at 635 UTC time,
a Falcon 9 upper stage left over from the launch of a
Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lunar lander will slam
into the moon near Einstein Crater.
According to Bill Gray of Project Pluto,
the four-ton rocket body is expected to strike at
2.43 kilometers per second, excavating
a fresh crater 10 to 20 meters wide and throwing lunar
debris high above the impact site.
Quote, citizen scientists may be able to help us observe this
event, said Brian Day of NASA Ames Research Center
and surveyed in a June 12th briefing.
Observers in the Americas will have the very best view.
When the rocket hits, it will produce a flash
of light, much like a natural meteor or meteorite,
when they hit or strike the moon. However, the
rocket will be crashing slowly into daylit terrain,
and the flash may be too faint to see.
This, according to old Bill Cook
of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, the same briefing.
Indeed, he says, it could be as dim as 17th magnitude,
which would be invisible to the naked eye.
Of greater interest is the impact plume.
Cook estimates the collision will hurl as much
as 800,000 pounds of debris above the lunar surface.
If sunlight catches the expanding cloud,
it could become bright enough to see above the moon's limb.
This isn't the first time a rocket has hit the moon.
During the Apollo era,
NASA routinely crashed Saturn V rocket stages into the lunar surface
to generate moonquakes for seismometers left behind by astronauts.
In 2009, NASA's LCROSS mission crashed
a 2.3-ton Centaur rocket stage into the lunar south pole
in a successful search for water and ice.
None of these previous rocket impacts has
been convincingly observed by amateur astronomers.
This would be a first if anyone is able to see it.
We're going to provide updated crash site coordinates
and observing tips as August 5th approaches.
So stay tuned, folks, and always keep looking up.
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