Identified as a support for military use by the Russians, it was demolished by Ukrainian forces. His recovery is almost impossible. He waited for the arrival of terrestrial friendships in planets light years away
A gigantic radio and telescope that stood in Crimea, used in the past to support missions on Mars and Venus and to try to contact Alien Civilization, was destroyed by an attack with Ukrainian drone. Kiev’s defense forces have in fact destroyed the 70 -meter paraboloid antenna to prevent Russian forces from using it to guide the attacks on their territory. The radio and telescope, known as RT-70, is under Russian control from the annexation of the Crimea peninsula in 2014 and according to the Defense Express agency the Russians have made important changes to the structure to use it for military communications. RT-70 would have worked as an antenna for the Glonass satellite navigation system, the Russian alternative to the American GPS, increasing its precision of 30%. The destroyed antenna was one of the three RT-70 radio and telescopes built in the former Soviet Union in the mid-70s to form the Soviet Deep Space Network, when Soviet satellite technicians used radio and telescope, located near the city of Euparia, on the Black Sea coast, to communicate with different missions of the exploration program of Venus called “Venera”, between the end of the years, between the end of the years. 70s and the beginning of the 80s. In the 2000s, the telescope played a leading role in different initiatives aimed at contacting alien life forms. Over 20 packages of messages were sent by that place in four messaging campaigns aimed at potentially habitable planets in orbit around stars outside the sun system. Most of these messages have not yet reached the destination. The first to reach its goal is directed towards a planet similar to the earth in orbit around the star 581, about 20.5 light years from the earth, which will be reached in 2029. The RT-70 radio antenna has also carried out astronomical research, detecting signs from planets, asteroids and distant galactic centers. In the 2000s the telescope had supported the missions of the European Space Agency Mars Express and Rosetta, intended respectively in Mars and Comet 67/p. According to the Orbital Toray portal, the Shain mirror telescope, the largest optical tool for observing the sky in Ukraine, equipped with a 2.6 -meter mirror, is now under the control of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as optical telescopes, the radio and telescope and laser telemeters of the Simez observatory, located at the southern end of the Crimea. In other areas of Ukraine, the gigantic Ukrainian radio and telescope of Kharkiv suffered significant damage in 2022, when the region was under Russian occupation. Orbital TODAY reported that the Russian troops had already stolen tools and computers from the observatory and placed anti -human mines inside the 150,000 square meter site, covered by over 2,000 radio antennas. An UNESCO report from 2024 estimates that the overall damage to Ukrainian scientific infrastructures caused by the war with Russia admire to 1.26 billion dollars.
