Recently, a Chinese reusable spacecraft returned to Earth.
What is known
The spacecraft went into flight on August 42022. It was launched by a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan launch pad in China. This was the second orbital trip for this device.
A mysterious mission, which is practically not knowninformation ended on May 8, 2023. The aircraft traveled for 276 days. It landed at the Jiuquan Space Center in northwestern China.
Researchers from the Middle Kingdom are in no hurry to sharemission details. They only noted that the experiment was completed successfully and marks an "important breakthrough" in the field of reusable spacecraft research.
Note that at the end of last year a similarAn American drone has returned to Earth. The craft, called the Boeing X-37B, had been in orbit for 908 days. The U.S. Space Force says the drone was conducting a series of scientific experiments at an altitude of about 400 km.