{"id":145760,"date":"2026-02-07T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145760"},"modified":"2026-02-07T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:30:08","slug":"china-sends-fourth-shenlong-reusable-spacecraft-mission-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145760","title":{"rendered":"China sends fourth \u2018Shenlong\u2019 reusable spacecraft mission into orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina on Saturday launched the latest mission of its reusable experimental spacecraft \u2013 a potential rival to the US Space Force\u2019s X-37B.<br \/>\nIt was China\u2019s fourth launch of such a prototype spacecraft since 2020, all of them conducted at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre using the Long March-2F carrier rocket.<br \/>\nThe official name and technical specifications of the spacecraft have yet to be announced, but Chinese space fans have dubbed it the Shenlong, or \u201cDivine Dragon\u201d.<br \/>\nState news agency Xinhua&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3342759\/china-sends-fourth-shenlong-reusable-spacecraft-mission-orbit?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina on Saturday launched the latest mission of its reusable experimental spacecraft \u2013 a potential rival to the US Space Force\u2019s X-37B. It was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145760"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}