A SpaceX rocket stage launched in January 2025 drifted for more than 18 months before crashing into the Moon at 8,700 km/h, carving a crater tens of metres wide — while newer lunar launches are sending spent stages safely onward into orbit around the Sun instead.
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In early August, part of a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX, the company founded by Elon Musk, crashed into the Moon. However, the impact was not a surprise: independent astronomers had followed for months the trajectory of the object and, subsequently, both SpaceX and NASA confirmed that their journey would inevitably end on the Moon. ... Continue reading "This is the crater that left an abandoned SpaceX rocket as it crashed into the Moon and now is…
As far as is known, there are no video images of the impact of the decommissioned SpaceX rocket on the moon. However, there are photos of the impact site before and after the impact. Nevertheless, a spectacular video is circulating on social media that supposedly shows the collision. According to several experts, these are not authentic images, but an animation.
A SpaceX rocket stage launched in January 2025 drifted for more than 18 months before crashing into the Moon at 8,700 km/h, carving a crater tens of metres wide — while newer lunar launches are sending spent stages safely onward into orbit around the Sun instead.
A roughly four-tonne machine built on Earth ended an uncontrolled 18-month journey by striking the Moon on 5 August 2026. It was the upper stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 that launched Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 and ispace’s Resilience lander on 15 January 2025. After deploying the two spacecraft into a high, Moon-crossing orbit, the expendable stage could not make the controlled atmospheric re-entry that normally disposes of a Falcon…
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