Spaceplane

And this one, again, straight out of Star Wars.

China's secret space plane has been photographed in orbit.

So it looks like China has been operating a mysterious reusable spacecraft, often called Shenlong, which has been frequently been compared to America's XSF-37B space plane.

But very little about this spacecraft's mission is actually known or has been publicly reported.

But a photograph taken in 2024, and do look at the photograph because it is quite cool, by an American commercial imaging satellite has now been released through the US Defense Intelligence Agency report.

Even classified spacecraft can potentially be observed by commercial satellites as their orbital paths bring them into suitable viewing positions.

And so sometimes we get good glimpses of, you know, what the adversaries are up to.

And here, we found that China's latest space plane mission also appears to have demonstrated the ability to release and subsequently recapture a smaller object in orbit.

I talked a little while ago about the doomsday planes flying over the United States.

A U.S. intelligence report has offered a glimpse of China's top-secret space plane.

It's called the Shenlong, and it's robotic.

What does Shenlong mean? Divine dragons.