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Shenlong (simplified Chinese: 神龙; traditional Chinese: 神龍; pinyin: shén lóng; lit. 'divine dragon') is a Chinese reusable robotic spaceplane currently in development. [1] Only a few pictures have appeared since it was revealed in late 2007.
Images of an aerodynamic scaled model, ready to be launched from under the fuselage of a H-6K bomber, were first published in the Chinese media on 11 December 2007. [4] Code named Project 863-706, the Chinese name of this spacecraft was revealed as “神龙”空天飞机 or "Shenlong Space Plane", meaning Divine Dragon in Mandarin.
The X-37B has been in operation for years longer than China’s space plane and has stayed in orbit significantly longer, a record set during its sixth mission of a 908-day journey before ...
Three of the flights had flown above the Kármán line (edge of space), and one was intended to do so. In each of these accidents, the entire crew was killed. As of December 2023, a total of 676 people have flown into space and 19 of them have died. This sets the current statistical fatality rate at 2.8 percent.
Between 2008 and 2017, global space organizations launched an average of 82 orbital rockets a year. That number jumped to an average of about 130 launches a year between 2018 and 2022, according ...
The US X-37B and China's Shenlong are competing unmanned space planes whose covert missions are getting more complex. See how the spacecraft compare.
In November 2024, a new photograph of a spacecraft appeared on a presentation slide during a space forum event in Korea, [25] the speaker is a colonel from the US Space Forces – Korea. The subject looks different from the American X-37B, hence it is speculated to be the Chinese spacecraft.
A search for a missing plane carrying ten people has ended with the discovery of wreckage in Alaska and recovery of all the victims' bodies. Alaska Department of Public Safety, in a news release 2 ...