
Rocket part on collision course with the moon belongs to China, not SpaceX
CNN
A rocket part expected to collide with the moon on March 4 was wrongly identified as a SpaceX Falcon rocket stage. More likely, the object was from a Chinese lunar mission, according to NASA.
The object now on target to hit the moon was first made public by Bill Gray, an independent researcher focused on orbital dynamics and the developer of astronomical software. He identified it in 2015 as the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon rocket, used that same year to launch the US Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR.
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