No details were given on what the spacecraft was, what technologies were tested, how high it flew, and where its orbits had taken it since launch. Images of the craft have yet to be released. Mystery Chinese spacecraft returns to Earth after 276 days:
BEIJING, May 8 - An experimental Chinese spacecraft returned to Earth on Monday after staying in orbit for 276 days, China's state media reported, completing a landmark mission to test the country's reusable space technologies.
No details were given on what the spacecraft was, what technologies were tested, how high it flew, and where its orbits had taken it since its launch in early August 2022. Images of the craft have also yet to be released to the public. In 2021, what may have been a similar spacecraft flew to the edge of space and returned to Earth on the same day in a mission that was also kept largely under wraps. It landed on Earth "horizontally," according to China's main space contractor at the time.
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