{"id":194112,"date":"2024-08-06T02:26:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/chinas-secretive-space-plane-caught-on-camera-in-orbit-photos"},"modified":"2024-08-06T02:26:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:26:25","slug":"chinas-secretive-space-plane-caught-on-camera-in-orbit-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/chinas-secretive-space-plane-caught-on-camera-in-orbit-photos","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s secretive space plane caught on camera in orbit (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-secretive-space-plane-caught-on-camera-in-orbit-photos.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sch\u00f6fb\u00e4nker made use of a telescope having a 14-inch mirror and assorted gear capable of following satellites that keeps them automatically in the center of a field of view, finessing the equipment with a bit of input and corrections, he told <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI make these images by taking a video during the flyover and then stacking (averaging out) and sharpening the best frames,\u201d Sch\u00f6fb\u00e4nker said.<\/p>\n<p>The two solar panels that can be seen at the end aren\u2019t visible on any of the computer renderings available online, Sch\u00f6fb\u00e4nker advised. \u201cI am not really sure if they are solar panels or some other features like an antenna or something of that nature.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sch\u00f6fb\u00e4nker made use of a telescope having a 14-inch mirror and assorted gear capable of following satellites that keeps them automatically in the center of a field of view, finessing the equipment with a bit of input and corrections, he told Space.com. \u201cI make these images by taking a video during the flyover and then [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2028,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-satellites","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194112","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}