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LeoLabs says China’s secretive Shenlong reusable spaceplane released an unknown object into a roughly 593-km circular low Earth orbit during its fourth mission, with the object first seen by Kiwi Space Radar in New Zealand and not yet catalogued in Space Force’s database as of reporting.
A study conducted by a team of aerospace and mechanical engineers suggests that the WE0913A moon impactor, which crashed onto the lunar surface on March 4, 2022, was a Chinese booster rocket with an unknown object attached. The researchers had been tracking the impactor for seven years prior to its crash and determined that it was a booster rocket for the Chang'e 5-T1 mission. The lack of wobbling in its trajectory indicated that Chinese engineers had attached something to the shell opposite the engine, resulting in a double crater upon impact. The nature of the booster and the attached object has not been confirmed by China.