China’s secret space plane spotted by amateur astronomer
Pictures taken by an amateur astronomer showed a secretive Chinese space plane flying high up over Austria, revealing yet undisclosed features of the experimental craft.
China launched the reusable space plane Shenlong – meaning Divine Dragon – for its third mission in December aboard its Long March 2F rocket and it has been orbiting the Earth since.
It has previously completed two missions since 2020 with the previous one lasting over 250 days.
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17 comments
Oh nawwwww
Lies
😂
God blees you and your family and nation.
EV space plane, solar panels for heat tiles, wise to keep that secret.
Independent just got hacked by China with this AI BS?
Just blame china for everything.
I have no words for people who still believe the mainstream lies.
Lmao! 😂😂
Lies
The outer space is now owned by a country?
You folks really need to improve your gaslighting techniques.
Fake news. The independent is too scare to travel to china.😂To avoid arbitrary arrest in china. The best they could come up blurry picture of russian buran.
They have been flying in space for several years now, isn't that public information? It's not a secret.
If there is no photo of this space plane, how do we know it exist? Where's the evidence?
Great !! It's no longer "Secretive". I love that word especially as it is only used when referring to China.
then why call it secret, even a amateur can spot it😂
It is a secret when you keep making negative narrative on China.
Lol!!!
I doubt if the Chinese really really really wanted to keep it a secret, Joe Bloggs would see it . Could be wrong.