Humanity is about to witness a rocket hitting the Moon and it is China's 'work'!

About to witness the collision between the rocket and the Moon

The remaining part of China's rocket after launching into space in 2014 will crash into the Moon on March 4, 2022, at a speed of about 9,000 km / h (equivalent to 2,500 meters / s). The "unintentional" collision between man-made objects and the Moon will cause a crater 20 meters in diameter on the surface of Earth's natural satellite, Forbes reports.

Surprisingly, part of China's Long March 3C/E missile (named 2014-065B, Long March 3C/E turbocharger) came from a Chinese mission to retaliate back a sample of lunar rock to help scientists understand why the Moon is so heavily frozen.

* Missile Long March 3C/E is an upgraded version of Long March 3C.

An unmanned spacecraft is launched atop a Long March 3C/E rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China's Sichuan province in October 2014.

Previously, in October 2024, at Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China launched a Long March 3C/E rocket to carry out the mission named Chang'e 5-T1. This is a premise mission [to test a capsule during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere] before the country embarks on this full-fledged Chang'e-5 mission.

Currently, according to astronomers' observations, 2014-065B - with a mass of about 4 tons - is moving at a fairly fast speed and is in a high elliptical orbit of the Earth. By early March 2022, 2014-065B will fly away at 9,000 km/h, gradually towards the Moon and then make a collision at the surface of this natural satellite.

China, SpaceX both keep quiet

Earlier, American planetary scientist Bill Gray was the first to give information that part of SpaceX's old Falcon 9 rocket would crash into the Moon. However, after a full review, Bill Gray "corrected" and said that it was the auxiliary engine of the Long March 3C/E rocket made by China and launched into space 8 years ago.

As for SpaceX's old Falcon 9 rocket, it's currently unclear where the second stage of Falcon 9 is in deep space.

Both officials of SpaceX and China's Lunar Exploration Program after receiving this information did not have any comment or response.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies also indicates that the object expected to impact the far side of the Moon on March 4 is part of a Long March rocket. 3C/E, Washington Post information.

NASA and India say they will be monitoring the incident on March 4, 2022 thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and India's Chandrayaan-2 - both in orbit. orbit around the Moon.

This photo taken by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on December 2, 2020 and published on December 3, 2020 via CNS shows the Chang'e-5 Lunar probe are collecting samples on the Moon. This is the world's first model of the Moon in four decades. (Photo: China National Space Administration (CNSA) via CNS/AFP).

For China, thanks to the Chang'e 5-T1 mission, the mission to return the Chang'e-5 Moon sample was successful beyond expectations. At the end of December 2020, Chang'e-5 successfully brought back Earth a lunar sample to China. Make this country the third country, after the US and the Soviet Union, to accomplish this difficult mission. This is also the world's first lunar sample return mission in the past 46 years since the last Soviet mission in 1976.

The lunar rock samples brought back by Chang'e-5 are 2 billion years old, making them the youngest lunar rock samples scientists have. These samples suggest that the Moon has been active for a much longer time than previously thought.

The power of the Long March 3C . rocket

Up to now, the Long March rocket series is the "backbone" of China's space exploration programs. This is also the most powerful missile line of this country.

Variations of Long March have been, are, will perform space missions such as launching satellites into orbit, launching probes/explorers to the Moon, Mars, asteroids.

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is the main contractor for China's space program.

1. Long March 3C is a Chinese orbital booster, in which Long March 3C/E is an upgrade of the Long March 3C series. It is designed to fill the gap in load capacity between Long March 3A and 3B.
2. CASC has spent 20 million USD for the China Academy of Rocket Technology (CALT) to produce the Long March 3C rocket.
3. Truong Chinh 3C has a total height of 55.64 meters.
4. Long March 3C is capable of providing an 8-ton payload capacity to Low Earth Orbit (LEO); and 3.9 tons to Geostationary Transitional Orbit (GTO).
5. This is a 3-stage rocket with two strapped boosters powered by liquid fuel. The strength of Truong Chinh 3C is shown through the turbocharger and 3 stages:

The turbocharger is powered by two strapped boosters, each 16.1 m long and powered by a YF-25 engine. The engines run on dinitrogen tetroxide (N2O4) and asymmetric dimethylhydrazine (UDMH), each generating 740.4 kN of thrust. The booster burns for 140 seconds.

The first stage has four Y4-21C engines, like the YF-25 on rocket boosters, powered by N2O4 and UDMH fuel. The first stage burns for 158 seconds and generates a thrust of 2,960 kN. It has a length of 24.7 m and a diameter of 3.35 m.

The second stage has a YF-24E engine module. The module contains one main YF-24E engine for thrust and four YF-23C engines. The main engine produces 742 kN thrust while each engine produces 47.1 kN thrust. Just like turbochargers and early stage engines, they run on N2O4 and UDMH fuel. This stage has a length of 12.9 m, a diameter of 3.3 m and burns for 185 seconds.

The rocket's third stage has a YF-75 engine that runs liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOx) and generates 167 kN thrust. This part has a length of 12.3 m and a diameter of 3 m, burning in 487 seconds.