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The manoeuvres of a secret Chinese spacecraft have been revealed

by Alexandrina Sherman

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Launched for the third time – on December 14 on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Cosmodrome in the Gobi Desert – China’s secret reusable spaceplane has performed manoeuvres in Earth orbit. This became known to SpaceNews.

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The publication recalls that initially the spacecraft entered an orbit with a height of 333 by 348 kilometres. Referring to data from the U.S. Space Force, the publication writes that around January 20, the spacecraft performed manoeuvres that allowed him to enter orbit with an apogee of 597 kilometres.

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