“The complete success of this experiment marks a significant breakthrough in our country’s research on reusable spacecraft technology,” Chinese state media agency Xinhua reported, suggesting that Chinese researchers have developed technology, such as heat shields and landing equipment, specifically for reusable craft.Ĭhina, the US companies Boeing and SpaceX and NASA are the only players to have launched and recovered orbiting reusable craft. Although China has not revealed details about the spacecraft’s design and operation, aerospace engineers have pieced together information from fragments, painting a picture of a craft with potential for research as well as military uses. Credit: Boeing/Sipa/ShutterstockĬhina has landed a mysterious spacecraft that spent nine months in Earth’s orbit, making the nation one of just a handful of entities that have successfully operated a reusable spacecraft.
The Boeing X-37B, pictured here, is thought to have inspired China’s mysterious spaceplane.
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