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A decommissioned SpaceX rocket that got off course is expected to slam into the moon at 5,400 miles per hour on Wednesday morning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will likely crash into the moon at 2:35 a.m. ET on Wednesday after drifting for 19 months in a moon-crossing high-Earth orbit. Typically, the upper stage of the rocket would enter a highly elliptical orbit of the Earth before eventually being brought down and catching fire before it landed in a remote part of the ocean. But gravitational pulls from Earth, the moon, and the sun gradually altered the rocket\u2019s trajectory. The rocket was used to launch commercial moon landers into space before it was decommissioned.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A decommissioned SpaceX rocket that got off course is expected to slam into the moon at 5,400 miles per hour on Wednesday morning.\u00a0The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will likely crash into the moon at 2:35 a.m. ET on Wednesday after drifting for 19 months in a moon-crossing high-Earth orbit. Typically, the upper stage of the rocket would enter a highly elliptical orbit of the Earth before eventually being brought down and catching fire before it landed in a remote part of the ocean. But gravitational pulls from Earth, the moon, and the sun gradually altered the rocket\u2019s trajectory. The rocket was used to launch commercial moon landers into space before it was decommissioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"yoast_head":"\nA SpaceX Rocket Is About To Crash Into The Moon - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A SpaceX Rocket Is About To Crash Into The Moon - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A decommissioned SpaceX rocket that got off course is expected to slam into the moon at 5,400 miles per hour on Wednesday morning.\u00a0The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will likely crash into the moon at 2:35 a.m. ET on Wednesday after drifting for 19 months in a moon-crossing high-Earth orbit. 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