Im December 2023 China has sent a spacecraft into space whose purpose or mission is largely unknown. There are no photos of it either. One of the few things you can talk about Shenlong 6 know is that it is the American X-37B (see below).
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The spaceplane is now on Friday 268 days returned to Earth, as reported. Accordingly, it is on the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center landed in a remote part of northwest China.
Object exposed
What was carried out on the flight is unknown. Astronomers have noticed several times that the spacecraft has rejected or exposed something. It was speculated that these were satellites. However, this has not been confirmed.
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The official Shenlong mission description includes this Testing reusable technologies and that Conducting scientific experiments. However, this is not discussed in more detail.
3. Flight
It is now 3. Flight of the Chinese spaceship. The first 2 flights took place 2020 and 2022 instead of. They lasted 12 and 11 months.
The USA has with that X-37B also a reusable, unmanned spacecraft. It looks a bit like a small version of the space shuttle and has a wingspan of 4.5 meters.
Like the Space Shuttle and China’s counterpart, it launches with one rocket into space and after re-entry lands on a runway like an airplane. India is also developing its own reusable orbital spaceplane called Pushpak.
