China's secret drone released an unidentified object into space

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China's secret drone released an unidentified object into space

On September 4, the PRC launched an experimental spacecraft, which was launched into orbit using the Long March 2F rocket. The object successfully returned to Earth on 6 September. At the moment, nothing is known about the characteristics and purpose of the brainchild of Chinese designers.

However, the news agency SpaceNews reports that before returning to Earth, a secret spacecraft released an object of unknown origin. The American edition supports its arguments with information from a tracker using data from the North American Aerospace Defense Command. So, according to the latest data, the object NORAD ID 46395 (2020-063G COSPAR ID) is located in an orbit with parameters 332x348 km with an inclination angle of 50,2 degrees.



As for the experimental ship itself, the same publication SpaceNews believes that it could be an analogue of the American mini-shuttle X-37B. At least, plans to test such a spacecraft in 2020 were announced three years earlier in China.

It is worth recalling that the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin also expressed his opinion on the secret spacecraft from the Middle Kingdom in 2018. Then the functionary linked him with weapons of mass destruction, suggesting that such a mini-shuttle could be in space for a long time and, if necessary, glide from above.

At the same time, not only China is striving to place such "weapons of mass destruction" in space. So, according to engineer Paul Jaffe of the US Navy Research Laboratory, technology, tested by the American unmanned shuttle X-37B, in the future can provide such devices with an almost unlimited service life.
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    1. steelmaker
      steelmaker
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      11 September 2020 14: 15
      The Chinese do not stand still and should be glad for them. Another upsetting thing is that we do not have joy in space. If it were not for the Soviet rockets, then it seems that we would not have space!
      1. rotkiv04
        rotkiv04
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        11 September 2020 23: 42
        And we have a dEffective manager-trampoline, he is going to the moon.
    2. Dmitry S.
      Dmitry S.
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      23 October 2020 16: 31
      The unidentified object was identified: it turned out to be a bust of Mao-Stalin made in the manner of the Roman god Janus. Under the influence of the solar wind and cosmic radiation, he changes profiles to Xi - Putin, Gaddafi - Hussein, Che - Castro, which worries the American elites and causes multiphrenic sentiments in the ranks of schizophrenic congressmen. As an adequate response, NASA decided to launch a similar bust of Trump-Biden, but faced an insoluble problem: the faces of a presidential candidate and an incumbent president cannot easily get along in the same volume.