On May 24, China’s secret spaceplane, Shenlong, ejected a mysterious object into Earth's orbit, prompting the US Space Force to track it down amid growing concerns about its purpose and implications.
China's top-secret spacecraft launched an enigmatic object approximately 372 miles above Earth into Earth's orbit.
The US Space Force is keeping an eye on the situation, although it is still unclear why the enigmatic object was ejected on May 24.
When a Harvard astrophysicist first saw the enigmatic object, he conjectured that it might be a subsatellite deployment or possibly some hardware that the spaceplane had dropped before its mission ended and it deorbited.
Following his initial observation of the object, Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics posted on X, saying, "This object could be a subsatellite deployment, or it could be a piece of hardware ejected before the end of the mission and deorbit (the spaceplane's first flight did somethi...
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