The Pentagon has released the first clear picture of China's secret space plane.
🖋️ Pavel Aksenov.
Military analyst for the Russian BBC.
The Defense Intelligence Agency of the US Department of Defense released an image of China's reusable "space plane" recorded in 2024 by the Maxar Technologies satellite. The company has since changed its name to Venture. This is the first clear image of this secret spacecraft; Because the previous pictures published of him were very blurry and unclear.
This image was published in a report titled "Security Challenges in Space". This report looks at US military competition with China and Russia, as well as North Korea and Iran, countries that also have space programs with military applications.
Space planes, also known as "cosmo planes", are among the advanced spacecraft that have the ability to move both in outer space and in the Earth's atmosphere. Such devices have aerodynamic surfaces such as wings and rudders, as well as bodies with aerodynamic shapes, and this feature allows them to fly in a controlled atmosphere.
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