China's top-secret spaceplane can't hide in low-Earth orbit
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中国一架带翼航天器2024年被美国商业卫星拍摄到在轨图像。该航天器具备三角翼、载荷舱门、深色隔热层及带太阳能阵列的后置服务舱，设计被认为与美国太空军X-37B高度相似。拍摄方Vantor（2024年名为Maxar）为美军及情报机构提供侦察影像，其地球成像卫星也可用于观测太空目标。
A winged Chinese spacecraft bearing a strong resemblance to the US military's X-37B spaceplane was photographed in orbit by a passing US-owned commercial satellite in 2024, and we finally have the image.
The Chinese spaceplane has delta wings, payload bay doors, a dark heat shield, and a rear-mounted service module with power-generating solar arrays. In other words, the design of the winged ship is, to a great degree, a copy of the X-37B spaceplane flown by the US Space Force.
The photo was taken by a commercial imaging satellite owned by a company called Vantor, known as Maxar in 2024. Vantor is one of several companies that provide reconnaissance imagery of locations around the world to the US military and US intelligence agencies. The same Earth-imaging satellites can point their telescopes at objects in space.
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