Musk has the freedom to explore space and should take responsibility for keeping order.
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Recently, foreign media such as The Guardian and the Russian Satellite News Agency reported that the wreckage of a rocket of the US Space Exploration Technology Company (SpaceX) is about to collide with the moon.
This is a Falcon 9 rocket launched by SpaceX in February 2015.
At that time, SpaceX successfully launched a rocket in Florida, USA, sending the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's deep-space climate observation satellite to more than 1 million kilometers from Earth.
Launch scene of a SpaceX rocket
Typically, after completing a mission, the Falcon 9 rocket burns up on its way back to Earth and is then recovered from Earth.
However, due to altitude restrictions, the Falcon 9 rocket did not have enough fuel to return to Earth's atmosphere. So it was trapped in space, floating in space.
Strictly speaking, this was a launch accident.
According to astronomer Gray, the wreckage of the Falcon 9 rocket, weighing 4 tons, passed by the moon on January 5 this year and could collide with the moon at a speed of 2.58 kilometers per second on March 4.
This is likely the first incident in which space junk hit the moon.
This prediction was confirmed by astronomer Jonathan McDowell at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
In a social media post, he wrote:
For those questions, I'd like to say, yes, the old Falcon 9 rocket launched in 2015 will hit the moon on March 4. But the problem shouldn't be that tricky.
McDowell's tweet
The moon is not Earth, and this impact is not as terrible as imagined.
But this isn't the first time SpaceX has had an accident.
As early as January 1 this year, I introduced in the article "U.S. Satellites Almost Hit the Chinese Space Station Twice: Behind the Western Colonial Means Hundreds of Years Ago" that the Starlink satellite launched by spaceX in the United States approached the Chinese space station twice.
Press releases
In August last year, Hugh Lewis, the leader of the space research team at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, revealed that in space orbit, there will be 1600 satellite close contact events every week, and SpaceX's satellites account for up to 50%.
Experts predict that once SpaceX completes the full deployment of 12,000 satellites in the first phase, 90% of the encounters of other satellites will involve Starlink satellites.
The number of close encounters between Starlink and other spacecraft
The danger factor in space will rise sharply.
SpaceX launched so many satellites into the sky, of course, not deliberately to create accidents.
In addition to commercially driven and seizing space resources, the most important thing is to serve elon Musk's ambitions.
With a net worth of $165.7 billion, Musk is the world's second-richest man after Bezos.
Top five on The Forbes Real-Time Rich List
Musk has a wealth of entrepreneurial experience, and now he has three main companies:
First, in June 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, the current CEO and CTO.
Second, in 2004, Musk invested in Tesla Motors, and he is now ceo.
Third, in 2006, Musk co-founded the photovoltaic power generation company Sun City Company, and is currently the chairman of the board.
These three companies, one in heaven, one to build cars, and one to solar energy, seem to be out of reach, but they are actually serving Musk's ambition to "immigrate to Mars".
Colonizing Mars does seem like a fantasy, not to mention that it is a goal proposed by one person and not a country.
However, Musk does have a great place in that he is able to chart a path from reality to the future.
Immigrate to Mars, simply put, one is technology, the other is money.
SpaceX, Tesla, and Sun City are companies that are both engaged in technology and making money.
Tesla is the main force of making money. The total delivery volume of several series of electric vehicles in the whole year of 2021 was 936222 units, achieving revenue of $53.82 billion and net profit of $5.644 billion.
Tesla deliveries
At the same time, Tesla also performed well in the capital market, with a market value of up to $832.6 billion.
Relying on Tesla alone, Musk has accumulated funds to "immigrate to Mars".
SpaceX is the technology workhorse. To immigrate to Mars, the difficulty is not to go, not to go back, but to go and go back at low cost.
SpaceX's main direction of attack is the spacecraft launch recovery technology.
On May 5, 2021, SpaceX successfully completed high-altitude flight tests on its latest prototype of Starship, SN15, and successfully landed after launch.
SN15 launch
Musk said Starship will be the core of the company's deep space rocket fleet for flights to the moon and Mars.
Solar technology in Sun City is also auxiliary to space flight.
From the current point of view, Musk is getting closer to his ambitions step by step.
I have no objection to his ambitions.
In fact, just like the first person to eat crabs, we need a pioneer in space exploration.
In that sense, we should pay tribute to Musk.
However, musk's actions on the road to achieving his ambitions are not all harmless.
Whether it is the satellites of the Starlink program or the wreckage of the Falcon 9 rocket, it may endanger space security.
Recently, the "2021 China Aerospace" white paper was released.
The white paper points out that in today's world, more and more countries attach great importance to and vigorously develop the space industry, and the world's space industry has entered a new stage of great development and great changes, which will have a major and far-reaching impact on the development of human society.
China proposes to promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind in the field of outer space.
As it is said, space is the space of all mankind.
All of humanity should not pay for Musk's ambitions.