Moondrome
Ukraine /
Krym /
Rodnykove /
World
/ Ukraine
/ Krym
/ Rodnykove
, 6 km from center (Родникове)
World / Ukraine / Crimea
abandoned / shut down
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In summer 1968, at the KIP-10 (КИП-10) in the secret village Shkolnoye, near Simferopol, a lunodrom (moondrome) was built. It covered an area of one hectare (120 meters by 70 meters) and was very similar to some parts of the lunar surface. It was constructed using more than 3,000 cubic meters of soil, and included 54 craters up to 16 m in diameter and around about 160 rocks of various sizes. The whole area was covered with bricks, painted in gray and black. It was used to analyze problems with the Lunokhod chassis.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 45°3'15"N 33°53'37"E
- 105-Foot Tracking Dish 0.4 km
- Military facility 1.5 km
- Telemetry Collection Area №9 1.7 km
- Departure. Terminal A "Aeroflot". 8.9 km
- Terminal B 9 km
- ANP gas station 15 km
- Avias Plus gas station 18 km
- Leather Manufacture Combinate 19 km
- Sevastopolskaya ulitsa / vulytsia Sevastopolska, 247 21 km
- Quarry 21 km
- 105-Foot Tracking Dish 0.3 km
- Soviet Space Tracking Station NIP-10 Simpheropol 0.5 km
- Mirables field 0.7 km
- Military facility 1.3 km
- Telemetry Collection Area №9 1.9 km
- Cemetery 2.1 km
- Sausage Factory "Skvortsovo" 5.3 km
- Mezhgornoye Reservoir / Mizhhirne Reservoir 8.4 km
- Perovo / Perove Solar Station 11 km
- Nikolaevka/Mykolaivka Solar Station 15 km