Piece of SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon Wednesday

August 5, 2026 4:02 PM

Piece of SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon Wednesday

A SpaceX rocket piece floating in space since last year is on track to smash into the moon at high speed early Wednesday morning. The school-bus-size object is the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had launched a lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace toward the moon in January 2025. Weighing four metric tons (4,000 kg), the rocket body is due to hit the moon around 2:35 a.m. ET (0635 GMT), hitting its surface at 5,400 miles per hour (8,690 kph). The space junk will kick up a plume of...

South Korea to launch fourth next-generation Earth observation satellite aboard SpaceX rocket

July 6, 2026 7:42 AM

South Korea to launch fourth next-generation Earth observation satellite aboard SpaceX rocket

South Korea is set to launch its fourth next-generation medium-sized Earth observation satellite from the United States on Tuesday, as it steps up efforts to strengthen its space-based observation and communications capabilities. According to the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA), the 500-kg satellite will lift off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base at 4:10 pm Korean time. The satellite has completed final inspections and fuelling and is awaiting l...