Posted on Jan 27, 2022
SpaceX rocket orbiting Earth is on a collision course with the moon
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A SpaceX rocket that has been stranded in Earth's orbit for seven years is on a collision course with the Earth's moon, reports the Guardian.
The crewless Falcon 9 rocket, launched by Elon Musk's space exploration company in 2015, was part of an interplanetary mission to send a space weather satellite a million miles into the final frontier.
After breaking through the Earth's atmosphere and launching the weather satellite toward its destination, the rocket's second stage propulsion boosters malfunctioned, stranding it in orbit with not enough power either to advance or to return to Earth.
The crewless Falcon 9 rocket, launched by Elon Musk's space exploration company in 2015, was part of an interplanetary mission to send a space weather satellite a million miles into the final frontier.
After breaking through the Earth's atmosphere and launching the weather satellite toward its destination, the rocket's second stage propulsion boosters malfunctioned, stranding it in orbit with not enough power either to advance or to return to Earth.
SpaceX rocket orbiting Earth is on a collision course with the moon
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As SpaceX's rocket travels its path to the moon, we may find out that it was designed to come back on line and land on the Moon as the U.S.'s first Space Station, complete with human-like robots who will set the base up to produce life giving oxygen and edible food for human astronauts already waiting to go... Just kidding... LOL!
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