{"id":151346,"date":"2026-05-14T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151346"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:00:06","slug":"looming-us-rocket-debris-crash-unlikely-to-hit-chinese-moon-landers-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151346","title":{"rendered":"Looming US rocket debris crash unlikely to hit Chinese moon landers: experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA stray Falcon 9 rocket part is on course to slam into the moon in August.<br \/>\nThe expected impact poses no immediate danger, experts say, but warn that it highlights a critical lack of rules for managing debris as lunar activity by the US, China and private companies ramps up.<br \/>\nMeasuring 13.8 metres (45 feet) long and 3.7 metres wide, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s upper stage has been drifting through Earth-moon space since it launched a US commercial lander and a Japanese lander in January last&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3353555\/looming-us-rocket-debris-crash-unlikely-hit-chinese-moon-landers-experts?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA stray Falcon 9 rocket part is on course to slam into the moon in August. The expected impact poses no immediate danger, experts&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}