A rocket just hit the Moon and nobody on Earth has been willing to step up and take the blame, raising more concerns about space trash.
, there are a lot of missions centered around it. Now, the Moon isn’t a stranger to being hit by space junk. What’s concerning is that nobody wants to take credit for the rocket that hit the Moon. This only raises more concerns about the current state of space junk flying around out there.
There were once beliefs that the rocket could have belonged to a SpaceX launch vehicle from back in 2015. The Elon Musk-led agency didn’t step up and take credit for it, though. And, after a while, Gray and other object trackers, including NASA itself, determined that it was most likely space junk from the launch of a 2014 rocket out of China.
Ultimately, though, China said it wasn’t to blame for the rocket that hit the Moon. It claimed that the launch vehicle in question had burned up in reentry. Whether that was the truth or not, though, remains to be seen. And, with nobody taking credit, we’re all just kind of left scratching our heads over what happened.A piece of a Russian rocket burns up over Australia. Image source:As I noted before, the Moon isn’t a stranger to space junk colliding into it.
Rockets create a lot of trash. Not only do they feature multiple stages, but they also have multiple moving parts that can become dislodged somehow. And, for the time being, tracking space trash is exceptionally difficult. Everyone has admitted that it’s a problem, yet we still have to worry about the ISS avoiding trash that countries created by destroying satellites and other things.
It’s because of this lack of effort to track space objects that a piece of a rocket was able to hit the Moon. In its wake, the trash left a unique two-crater indent. While not a massive crater by any means, it was big enough to leave a mark on our lunar body.this could help determine who it belonged to, as rockets typically only create one crater.
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