All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 February Scientists track space junk on path to collision with moon Scientists track space junk on path to collision with moon 18/02/2022 | 4 MINS (INCLUDING 1.40 MIN VIDEO) Video Player 00:00 01:39 Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Zadko Observatory team, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, have tracked an out-of-control booster rocket before it crashes into the dark side of the Moon. The booster rocket was originally believed to be a part of a Space-X rocket weather satellite but it is now believed to be 2014-065B, the booster rocket for the Chinese Chang'e 5-T1 lunar mission. It is possible the booster rocket has been in orbit between the Earth and the Moon since 2014 and scientists predict this large piece of space junk will collide with the Moon on March 4. Associate Professor David Coward, an investigator for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery and a member of the LIT International Space Centre, said there was a lot of junk in space. ΓÇ£The space around Earth is be
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 February Scientists track space junk on path to collision with moon Scientists track space junk on path to collision with moon 18/02/2022 | 4 MINS (INCLUDING 1.40 MIN VIDEO) Video Player 00:00 01:39 Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Zadko Observatory team, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, have tracked an out-of-control booster rocket before it crashes into the dark side of the Moon.
The booster rocket was originally believed to be a part of a Space-X rocket weather satellite but it is now believed to be 2014-065B, the booster rocket for the Chinese Chang'e 5-T1 lunar mission.
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It is possible the booster rocket has been in orbit between the Earth and the Moon since 2014 and scientists predict this large piece of space junk will collide with the Moon on March 4.
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Associate Professor David Coward, an investigator for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery and a member of the LIT International Space Centre, said there was a lot of junk in space.
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