Astronomers say the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that launched in early 2025 will strike the Moon later this summer, likely on the near side of the Moon. Bill Gray, who writes the widely used Project Pluto software to track near-Earth objects,

Falcon 9 rocket stage projected to impact moon’s near side in August A spent Falcon 9 stage used to launch a pair of commercial lunar landers is projected to impact the moon Aug. 5, according to astronomers.

A Falcon 9 launch of the CAS500-2 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for the first half hour of Sunday, May 3, 2026. The 37-minute launch window will being in the final minute of Saturday,

A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage is predicted to slam into the Moon’s Einstein crater at 5,400 mph, according to astronomer Bill Gray’s tracking software. The rocket stage, launched in January 2025 with two lunar landers, has been drifting in a ...

SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites into low-earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. The company plans to launch 24 Starlink