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"Аполлон - 18" Бемкамбетова, сиквел
Неизвестный аппарат из двух ступеней, за которым NASA наблюдало с 2015 года, врезался в Луну — никто на Земле не признается, чей он.
Эксперты считают, что ракета связана с китайской лунной миссией 2014 года. Однако Китай это отрицает, говоря, что их ракета-носитель «благополучно вошла в атмосферу Земли и полностью сгорела».
http://tjournal.ru/tech/663626https://www.independent.co.uk/space/mystery-rocket-smashing-crater-moon-b2110039.htmlImages taken by the American space agency’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on 25 May revealed a double crater formed by the rocket’s impact.
https://www.sott.net/article/469208-Mystery-surrounds-craters-caused-by-Moon-crashNasa scientists are baffled by a mystery spacecraft that crashed into the Moon creating two large craters.
Despite being tracked since 2015, no one has claimed the rocket. It was travelling at 5.3km a second when it met the lunar surface on March 4, but new images by Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show that the impact was unlike anything seen before.
"Surprisingly, the crater is actually two craters, an eastern one (18m diameter) superimposed on a western one (16m diameter)," the agency said.
"The double crater was unexpected and may indicate that the body had large masses at each end. Typically a spent rocket has mass concentrated at the motor end; the rest of the rocket stage mainly consists of an empty fuel tank. Since the origin of the rocket body remains uncertain, the double nature of the crater may indicate its identity."
First pointed the finger at SpaceX, but then recalculated it was likely to be from a 2014 Chinese lunar mission (Chang'e 5-T1). China has contested this, saying that booster had "safely entered the Earth's atmosphere and was completely incinerated"
Japan, South Korea, Russia, India and the United Arab Emirates aim to send missions to the Moon in the next year, while the US plans to land the first woman there in 2024.
