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Four-tonne piece of Space X rocket believed to have crashed on Moon

Four-tonne piece of Space X rocket believed to have crashed on Moon
France 24 Wednesday 05 August 2026, 10:43 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Four-tonne piece of Space X rocket believed to have crashed on Moon Science Issued on: Share A four-tonne piece of a SpaceX rocket is believed to have unintentionally crashed into the Moon on August 5, a collision that posed no danger to Earth but is expected to leave behind a lunar crater. While there is not yet official confirmation that the Falcon 9 upper stage struck the lunar surface, it had been expected to make impact at approximately 06:35 GMT.
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