Out-of-control SpaceX rocket on collision course with the moon

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Falcon 9 booster was originally launched from Florida in 2015 to deploy Deep Space Climate Observatory

Space observers believe the rocket – about four metric tonnes of “space junk” – is on course to intersect with the moon at a velocity of about 2.58km/s in a matter of weeks.

 

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Uh-oh, time for all the Musk nerds to hop on Twitter and explain how it's all some intentional genius plan that he meant to do all along or is good for us in some way.

thought this was an Onion headline at first

Out-of-control sensationalist news organization on collision course with absolutely banal non-event.

elonmusk Isn’t it a planned one? A Secret Crypto along with the Rocket to the Moon. 🚀

oh no i hope they dont break it

Elon Musk's Rocket Man

Elon’s knights out in force here

Less space debris = a good thing.

this is the guy who wants to put a chip in your brain

OH NO! Hopefully it doesn't hit the Water Bears! (Btw moon has craters its used to being hit by stuff)

the amount of people defending a man-child billionaire won’t stop being funny

G.

Get ready

It could have just as easily collided with the earth. Maybe the next one will.

Another headline from a news outlet that knows nothing about spaceflight exaggerating the truth to generate attention...

‘Out-of-control rocket’ it’s a spent upper stage.

Another example of the Guardian displaying either it's ignorance or (shush) could it be it's anti-Musk-in- everything-bias? Or is it that the daily Mail headline writer is moonlighting for the Guardian again?

Uh this is not actually a problem nor is it unusual. Back to the Ukraine and Russian intentions.

Nope.

Great job.

The weirdest way to find out there's life on the Moon is by a Tesla been lining to it.

This thread is a hilarious study in moronic twitter warriors weighing in about things they have little knowledge of, based on sensationalized tabloid-style reporting.

Ok and?

For a newspaper, it is 'out-of-control' to make it sensational. NBD to folks involved in actual space travel.

It’s happening

Do these 'news' sites really know that the mission is -over, -it's a natural collision course because of Moon's gravitational effect on any orbit of such kind and that -the moon gets impacted all the time?

Love all the comments, it clearly shows the place we’re in right now. Question, has anyone asked the Moon if this is ok? If that’s crazy here’s another, is the Sun “alive”? Is plasma “alive”? Google is your friend on this one, also Akhenaten and Ra.

Moonfall (2022)

Moonfall (2022) dir by Roland Emmerich

Really expensive marketing campaign for MoonfallFilm

This type of moronic hyperbole was previously only reserved for Trump tweets

Quick reminder that you shouldn't hate spacex or it's engineers, rather you should channel your hate to elon musk specifically

elon's lil musks will be in here telling people the rocket was in fact meant to fucking smash into the moon

OH MAH GAWD!!! Do you think it will deorbit the moon and kill everyone?!? You should really include that possibility in your asinine article.

“Die moon die!”

Every passing second elon musk still exists is a compounding moral failure

istg its gonna smash directly into either the moon landing site or a moon rover

You guys need to do better.

It will prob just catch fire before it gets there......

Its about time. We need to deal with space like the Amerikans we are. I assume we fired from Vandenberg. Lovely base. They truly care. They protect the Snowy Plover. Gotta go with the flow. Vandenberg is close to Lompoc. Look it up. Great Golf. Lots of flowers. Boom.

As if we are not doing enough damage to our own environment, we have to aim for the moon as well…

It's not an 'out-of-control' rocket. It's an expended upper stage that performed It's mission normally, and then was placed in a disposal orbit per industry best practices. Over time orbital perturbations were such that the stage will collide harmlessly with the moon.

Please just don’t. This is ridiculous.

These comments show how little people know about spaceflight. And not making it better with the terrible reactionary headlines. Get gud

In other news, an out of control nuclear reactor is constantly irradiating the entire Earth, and has already caused cancer on millions of people. Billionaires, however, rely on it for their profits.

holy shit what a terrible headline

Me looking for journalistic integrity in this awful awful country

too bad Elon wasn't on it 😔

Don't worry, everyone. Your sister's weird boyfriend from college has assured me that this is fine, actually, as it's happened before (bigger, in fact) and it's an old rocket so who knows where it was gonna go? Also keep buying crypto and sign up for the brain chips!

Lmfao while this is somewhat technically correct, whoever wrote that misleading headline is soo fucked up man....

Elon Musk is a failure at everything he tries.

Must have seen a pedestrian

This article need to be reported as misleading. It is a second stage (not a booster) and it's really not a big deal.

I'm banking on Tesla causing a Kessler Syndrome event so when he finally bails on the Earth after it's nearly uninhabitable due to climate change he immediately gets vaporized by his own space junk.

Always here for the salty tears of the Musk fanboys. He's not going to take you into space and shag you, lads.

Literally every upper stage of every rocket stage is abandoned. This isn't a SpaceX specific thing. Once the satellite/probe is on its way, the stage is left to drift. Nasa, ESA, Russia, China, all do this. Its left over junk from an environment monitoring launch.

All the musksuckers landing here in 3…2….1…

Someone stop that maniac

'This newspeak is brought to you by Roland Emmerich.'

For those who think this is a problem, were you concerned with the first several dozen objects that were impacted, intentionally or unintentionally, or otherwise left on the Moon?

'MUSK, YOU SONOFABITCH!!'

Meteorologists study weather and climate. Not meteors and spacecraft! Come on put some effort into your clickbait.

Here's hoping Muskrat was inside

what happens if it accidently, say, hits a ford manufacturing plant?

And Elon wants to put chips into our brain? Cool. Very cool.

This article is just.... augh. Why won't people do any research on space and technology? A spent rocket stage is hitting the Moon. NASA had done it before. Space rocks hit the Moon all the time. Nothing is being harmed.

I think I saw this episode on The Expanse

Can any single person in this comment section understand that Elon isn't the only one at SpaceX? There are thousands of insanely smart and talented engineers and other employees there but any time you defend SpaceX its assumed you are an elon stan

At least there's consistency with self driving cars.

Pfft

Many of the responses on this thread are breathtakingly uninformed.

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Gee, I really hope the moon doesn’t blow up because a relatively small rocket crashed into it. 🙄🙄🙄

To the moon! 🚀

Next up - naming contest for the moon's newest crater.

way bigger rocket stages have crashed on the moon. Here is the collision made by an SIVB rocket stage. the massive third stage of the Saturn V, made by NASA. delete this headline soon thank you

Just a comment for everyone here...not all Space Geeks are 'boot lickers' or 'billionaire worshipers'.

Delete this clickbait bs.

God knows I can't stand Elon Musk but this isn't the big deal people are making it out to be.

Such a clickbait title , as expected from guardian. The mission was a success. The rocket never out of it's intended L1 orbit. The expendable second stage had been in a cislunar orbit for the past years and it eventually will collide with the moon, having completed it's mission.

🤦‍♂️

deray

Guardian continuing its recent trend of poorly written clickbaity articles. It's not 'out-of-control', that's just how orbital mechanics works. As Jonathan McDowell was quoted in your article, 'not a big deal', so move along—nothing to see here.

Finally we managed to start polluting the first non-earth surface in the universe. Even BEFORE settling there! Thank you elonmusk and SpaceX

This is nothing abnormal. India sent one which crashed or got lost,not even trace was found. Bcoz it was Made in India,much touted. Modi told whole world,now space guys lack interest in sending one. He is saving faceless face. Illiterate ,ignorant politicians Only rant for vote

on a collision course with wackiness! PS. CCCP still the all-time space champion lol

🤪 just when you though he was the biggest fuckwit on earth he goes galactic

Oh come on, these are 6 months away from working

elonmusk

I hope it dosent hit anyone when crashes into the moon surface.

Holy fuck, talk about your slow news day!

Jesus take the wheel 🙏🚀

Please say it means it'll rain cheese on Earth after this

so *now* can we stop letting billionaires throw junk into space with a clear lack of expertise. or are we gonna wait until space is as messed up as the earth is

Call International Rescue. Thunderbird 3 will sort it.

Do you know how hard it is to miss and hit the moon by accident?

Sounds like a job for International Rescue

NASA did the same with parts of the Apollo moon rockets. nothing to worry about.

SPACE X DID WHAT?

SpaceX

If we’re lucky the cow may take it out.

Sourabhd013 flop musk

Does that look like a red car on it?

pmagn Damn! No more tides..

“The man on the moon has reported that it landed safely and is now covered in cheese.”

ddaannyyal helppp

The booster is at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. This is the 2nd stage.

It’s not out of control, it’s a spent upper stage.

I feel like this is a metaphor for so many things going on at the moment 🤔 It’s like the story of Icarus but less successful.

His “Autopilot” doesn’t work on spacecraft either. Time to defund him through a HUGE wealth tax.

Elon Musk is playing 4D chess 😎

I guess it’s “likely to cause injury to its occupants by leaving travel lanes and striking fixed objects”

Elon is spreading his trash everywhere.

This sounds like it’s right out of DontLookUp

It's gonna hit the sweet spot and split it in two.

Will cast doubts on quality of SpaceX rockets for future missions. If things can go wrong at any stage of the mission, it could well go wrong even at the start..

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