--- title: "NASA Wants to See What Happens When a SpaceX Space Junk Collides With the Moon" description: "In 2015, a SpaceX rocket was launched to place a NASA satellite into orbit, and the rocket's second stage, or booster, has been drifting in space ever" author: "Vallabha Buddepu" published: 2022-01-28 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/news/1309/nasa-wants-to-see-what-happens-when-a-spacex-space-junk-collides-with-the-moon category: "space and research" tags: ["satellite assembly", "technology news", "space science"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # NASA Wants to See What Happens When a SpaceX Space Junk Collides With the Moon ## HIGHLIGHTS The impact of a four-ton rocket [component](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12262/learn-how-to-make-a-component-in-magento-2) will not be visible from Earth. The LRO might be employed in the future. Previously, spacecraft have been deliberately crashed into the Moon. ## WHY IN NEWS NASA said on Thursday that it plans to study the crater that will be made when the remains of a [SpaceX rocket](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/114969/which-spacex-rocket-became-the-first-to-achieve-full-reusability-of-its-booster-stage) fall into the Moon in early March, calling the event 'an interesting [scientific](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1571/surprising-scientific-facts-about-girls) opportunity.' The [rocket was launched](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94129/which-rocket-was-launched-on-21st-november-1963-in-india) in 2015 to launch a NASA [satellite](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/302705/decoding-satellite-communication-how-satellites-connect-the-world) into orbit, and its second stage, or booster, has been floating around in space ever since, which is a frequent destiny for space hardware. 'The second stage is anticipated to contact the far side of the Moon on March 4, 2022, on its present trajectory,' a NASA spokesman told TO [NEWS](https://www.mindstick.com/developersection/news). **also read :** https://tinyurl.com/2p8ja4da The four-ton rocket chunk's impact will not be visible in real time from Earth, and NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which is now circling the Moon, will not be in a 'position to view the impact as it happens,' according to a spokesperson. The LRO, on the other hand, might be utilised afterwards to take photos for before-and-after comparisonns. The spokesperson stated that finding the crater 'would be difficult and might take weeks to months,' but that the 'unique event gives an interesting study opportunity.' **also read :** https://tinyurl.com/2p8dpj2b Studying a crater made by a hurtling object with a known mass and speed (it will be moving at 9,000 kilometres per hour), [as well as](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2481/can-you-write-a-java-class-that-could-be-used-both-as-an-applet-as-well-as-an-application) the material stirred up by the impact, might aid develop selenology, or the scientific study of the moon. Although spacecraft have previously collided with the Moon for scientific [objectives](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/95820/understanding-of-speaking-skills-and-forms-platforms-objectives-and-examples), such as during the Apollo missions to test seismometers, this is the first unintentional collision to be discovered. The booster's new crash trajectory with the Moon was [calculated](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31699/what-is-sensex-and-how-it-is-calculated) for the first time by astronomer Bill Gray, the [developer](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/157260/variation-between-web-designer-and-web-developer) of software used to compute the trajectories of asteroids and other objects. --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/news/1309/nasa-wants-to-see-what-happens-when-a-spacex-space-junk-collides-with-the-moon Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.