China has launched and recovered a reusable spacecraft, an important step in the country's space program, state media reported Sunday.
The unmanned craft spent two days in orbit after being launched on Friday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and landed Sunday at its"scheduled landing site," the Xinhua news agency reported."The successful flight marked the country's important breakthrough in reusable spacecraft research and is expected to offer convenient and low-cost round trip transport for the peaceful use of the space," said the brief three paragraph report.
2019: Mysterious space plane lands after 780 days in orbit 00:57"The unmanned OTV is designed for vertical launch to low Earth orbit altitudes where it can perform long duration space technology experimentation and testing," the Air Force says."Upon command from the ground, the OTV autonomously re-enters the atmosphere, descends, and lands horizontally on a runway.
Mars is the latest arena in US-China rivalry 03:22While China was tight-lipped about its reusable spacecraft over the weekend, the country has been accelerating its space program at a rapid pace over the past decade.Buoyed by billions of dollars in government investment, Beijing has fired space labs and satellites into orbit and even become the first country to send an unmanned rover to the far side of the moon.Beijing is working toward sending astronauts to the moon and, eventually, Mars.
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