{"id":134712,"date":"2022-01-26T13:24:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T21:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/out-of-control-spacex-rocket-will-smash-into-the-moon-in-weeks"},"modified":"2022-01-26T13:24:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T21:24:14","slug":"out-of-control-spacex-rocket-will-smash-into-the-moon-in-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/out-of-control-spacex-rocket-will-smash-into-the-moon-in-weeks","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-control SpaceX rocket will smash into the moon in weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/out-of-control-spacex-rocket-will-smash-into-the-moon-in-weeks3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A SpaceX rocket that launched nearly seven years ago is now on course to crash into the moon, astronomers have predicted.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 booster was launched in February 2015 as part of a mission to send a climate observation satellite 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth, but since running out of fuel, the 4.4-ton (4 metric tons) rocket has been hurtling around space in a chaotic orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket is now expected to hit the far side of the moon while traveling at a blistering speed of 5,771 mph (9,288 km\/h) on March 4, 2022, according to Bill Gray, the developer of software that tracks near-Earth objects.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The rocket stage has been tumbling through space for seven years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX rocket that launched nearly seven years ago is now on course to crash into the moon, astronomers have predicted. The Falcon 9 booster was launched in February 2015 as part of a mission to send a climate observation satellite 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth, but since running out of fuel, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}