{"id":112901,"date":"2020-09-11T10:43:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T17:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/new-chinese-space-plane-landed-at-mysterious-air-base-evidence-suggests"},"modified":"2020-09-11T10:43:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T17:43:02","slug":"new-chinese-space-plane-landed-at-mysterious-air-base-evidence-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/new-chinese-space-plane-landed-at-mysterious-air-base-evidence-suggests","title":{"rendered":"New Chinese Space Plane Landed At Mysterious Air Base, Evidence Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-chinese-space-plane-landed-at-mysterious-air-base-evidence-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A commercial satellite photo may reveal a new Chinese space plane just moments after it landed at a remote site on the western side of China.<\/p>\n<p>The photo, which is too low resolution to be conclusive, was snapped by the San Francisco-based company Planet. It shows what could be the classified Chinese spacecraft on a long runway, along with several support vehicles lined up nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Terse statements by China\u2019s official Xinhua news agency said only that a Long March 2F rocket had carried a \u201creusable experimental spacecraft\u201d into orbit and that the launch and landing were successful. The landing took place on Sept. 6 at almost the exact time the photo was snapped by the passing satellite.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The mission took place this past weekend, shrouded in secrecy, but some clues are emerging about what China sent into space, and why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commercial satellite photo may reveal a new Chinese space plane just moments after it landed at a remote site on the western side of China. The photo, which is too low resolution to be conclusive, was snapped by the San Francisco-based company Planet. It shows what could be the classified Chinese spacecraft on a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}