Notorious RBMK

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space doctor and former ohioan who lives on a farm in oregon

good correction here, it’s the hardware that did the TLI burn. you can have a reasonable debate about whether it’s better for it to impact the moon or hit our atmosphere. but if you send stuff to the moon one or the other has to to happen

geb@geb1999.bsky.social · yesterday

but the upper stage in question is not in orbit around the moon, it's in a large, eccentric orbit around the earth. nothing in SpaceX's public-facing statements indicates that this collision was intentional or planned, they just put in a junk orbit www.projectpluto.com/25010d.htm