A Chinese rocket carrying a secret payload has crashed on the moon, leaving two huge craters

American researchers revealed that a piece of a Chinese missile that collided with the surface of the moon in March 2022 carried an unconventional or secret warhead.

What payload did the mysterious Chinese missile carry?

More specifically, the American research published by the Planetary Science Journal, The space debris in question is identified as a piece of China’s Chang’e-5 T-1 experimental spacecraft.

The upper stage of the Chinese rocket, which was launched in October 2014 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China, Leaving a distinctive double crater on the moon’s surfaceIts presence indicates the presence of an additional secret charge in the missile, according to American scientists.

Tanner Campbell, first author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Arizona, highlighted the anomalies he observed in the behavior of the Chinese missile. Normally, Tanner reported how The Chang’e-5 T-1 “body type” missile should follow an oscillating trajectory due to its asymmetric structure, but in reality the Chinese missile moved very stably. According to Tanner, this indicates there is significant additional mass above the booster.

The American stressed that according to today’s data, the creation of a double crater on the surface of the Moon is particularly unusual, as, for example, the Apollo missions of the United States of America resulted in circular or rectangular craters on the surface of the Moon.

Let it be what it is The biggest mystery for researchers is the unknown payload the rocket is carrying atop it. This head will probably answer most of the questions of American scientists. However, Tenner is not particularly optimistic, saying that the cargo carried by the Chang’e-5 T-1 will likely remain an unsolved mystery for a long time to come.

As for Chang’e-5 T-1, it is an experimental robotic spacecraft that was launched to the moon on October 23, 2023 to conduct atmospheric re-entry tests, because Chinese scientists wanted to evaluate the spacecraft capsule before using it on the Chang’e-5 mission. The Chang’e-5 mission launched in 2020 was intended to collect samples from the Moon and return them to Earth.