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NASA Spots 60-Foot Lunar Crater From SpaceX Falcon 9 Debris Collision

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a new 60-foot-wide, 12-foot-deep crater on the Moon after SpaceX Falcon 9’s upper stage crashed there on Aug. 5 from the Jan. 15, 2025 Blue Ghost mission. The imagery, taken Aug. 11–12, required tilting LRO to look straight down with the Narrow-Angle Camera. The impact, traveling about 5,400 mph, involved a stage roughly 39 feet long, 13 feet wide, weighing ~4,000 kg. The darker ejecta rays reflect older surface material, while lighter rim material comes from deeper underground. Independent analysts predicted the collision and helped confirm the event.

via Engadget|

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space3 months ago•14 min saved

Falcon 9 upper stage slated to strike Moon’s near side in August

Astronomers project that a spent Falcon 9 upper stage from SpaceX’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 will impact the Moon on August 5, near Einstein crater on the western limb, at about 2:44 a.m. ET. The roughly 4,000-kg stage has been in a highly elliptical Earth orbit (~26 days) since January 2025; timing and location are expected to be refined with more observations. The impact would occur at roughly 2.43 km/s (about 8,700 km/h) and is not expected to be visible from Earth or pose any risk. The U.S. Space Force tracks the object, with 1,053 observations recorded as of February 2026, marking a rare instance of an artificial object hitting the Moon.

via SpaceNews|

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