China is unusually secretive about its space programme
What is it doing up there?
Nine months after being secretly launched into orbit, an uncrewed Chinese spacecraft touched down at a spaceport in the Gobi desert on May 8th. Not much is known about the mission. A terse report from state media called it an “important breakthrough”.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Don’t look up”
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