NASA confirms that SpaceX rocket wreck has hit the Moon

Na video published on social network X, NASA classified the event as a safe and risk-free event for Earth and the missions operating on the Moon.

This upper part of the rocket resulted from a launch carried out in 2025 that allowed the orbit of NASA's Blue Ghost One landing module, Firefly Aerospace, as part of the CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative, a commercial service program to transport scientific and technological cargo to the lunar surface.

According to NASA, the collision occurred due to a combination of solar activity and gravitational forces that altered the trajectory of the object.

“NASA did not deliberately plan this upper part to collide with the Moon,” explained an agency spokesperson in the video, which indicated that this type of equipment elimination is an accepted practice in lunar operations.

“ In reality, this is a technically accepted and safe method for disposal of equipment in low lunar orbit,” he said.

The agency added that some operators choose to end their operations by making the equipment impact on the lunar surface, because “it is a predictable and verifiable strategy to eliminate equipment at the end of its useful life.”.

The impact does not pose any danger to Earth or any equipment on the Moon, NASA stressed.

“ Scientists are eager to study this impact event because it can help us better understand how to track things of this kind in the future,” he said.

NASA explained that the Moon functions as a “natural laboratory to study processes that occur throughout the solar system,” due to the absence of atmosphere and its surface to remain stable for long periods.

The study of this type of impact allows scientists to analyze crater formation, a phenomenon that occurs in different bodies of the solar system.

“By touching a known sized object at a known speed against the lunar surface, this can help scientists understand the process of crater formation by impact and what kind of crater results from such an impact,” he added.

The agency recalled that the Moon has received constant impacts during its nearly 4,000 million years of history.

“Meteorites, asteroids, comets and other objects collide with the Moon at all times,” he said.

In addition, NASA highlighted that the astronauts of the Artemis II mission observed this year, during a few-hour lunar overflight, several impact phenomena, including flashes of active impacts or craters forming on the surface.