China's Secretive Spaceplane Deploys 7th Mysterious Object in Orbit
TL;DR
China's secretive Shenlong space plane released an unidentified object 372 miles above Earth, believed to be a small satellite or hardware. The U.S. Space Force has been tracking the plane since its launch in December 2022. The Shenlong, similar to the U.S. Boeing X-37B, has been in orbit for 276 days. Chinese officials have not disclosed details about the object or the plane's activities, maintaining that it is for peaceful space science experiments.
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