The government announced that China’s first reusable spacecraft will land on Sunday after two days in orbit, which may be a step towards low-cost space flight.
The secret space program carried out by the military secretly revealed little details of the spacecraft, which was launched on Friday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the desert region of Northwest China on a Long March 2F rocket.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the spacecraft landed in Jiuquan as planned.
The official media has not released any photos. The size and shape of the process is unclear.
Xinhua News Agency said that this flight "marked an important breakthrough in the study of reusable spacecraft in my country" and is expected to reach space in a "more convenient and cheaper way."
China launched a satellite to the first astronaut in 2003 and launched a space station. Last year, it became the first country to mount a robotic rover on the far side of the moon that is not well known. A probe carrying another robotic rover is heading to Mars.
Both the United States and the former Soviet Union have flown reusable spacecraft.
From the 1980s to 2011, the US Space Shuttle performed 134 missions. Since then, the U.S. military has developed the X-37, a robotic glider, which made its sixth flight in May.
In 1988, the Soviet space plane "Blizzard" made two circling flights on the earth.
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