{"id":754484,"date":"2026-06-22T22:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754484\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T22:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:15:12","slug":"leolabs-catches-chinese-spaceplane-releasing-new-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754484\/","title":{"rendered":"LeoLabs Catches Chinese Spaceplane Releasing New Object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    LeoLabs Catches Chinese Spaceplane Releasing New Object | Aviation Week<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"#main-content\" class=\"visually-hidden focusable\"><br \/>\n      Skip to main content<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a id=\"main-content\" tabindex=\"-1\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__byline\" href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/vivienne-machi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vivienne Machi<\/a><br \/>\n                    June 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/leolabs.jpg\" alt=\"leolabs\" class=\"b-lazy  img \"\/><\/p>\n<p>LeoLabs detected activity involving China\u2019s spaceplane using its Tracker radar in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: LeoLabs<\/p>\n<p>  Commercial space tracker LeoLabs says that China\u2019s reusable spaceplane has released a new object on orbit. The company detected an unknown object in the vicinity of the platform on June 22 at 2:30 UTC (June 21 at 10:30 p.m. EDT), with first observations coming from LeoLabs\u2019 radar in New Zealand, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/machi_vivienn_sized.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"b-lazy  img author__image \"\/><\/p>\n<p>          <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/vivienne-machi\" class=\"author--teaser__name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vivienne Machi<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author--teaser__bio\">Vivienne Machi is the military space editor for Aviation Week based in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>            Subscription Required<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">LeoLabs Catches Chinese Spaceplane Releasing New Object is published in Aerospace Daily &amp; Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your AWIN membership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Already a member of AWIN or subscribe to Aerospace Daily &amp; Defense Report through your company? <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/user\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Login<\/a>\u00a0with your existing email and password.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Not a member?\u00a0 Learn how you can access the market intelligence and data you need to stay abreast of what&#8217;s happening in the aerospace and defense community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeoLabs Catches Chinese Spaceplane Releasing New Object | Aviation Week https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Vivienne Machi June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-754484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}