一架酷似美军X-37B航天飞机的中国有翼航天器，于2024年被一颗路过的美国商业卫星在轨道上拍下，该照片现已公开。
A winged Chinese spacecraft bearing a strong resemblance to the US military's X-37B spaceplane was photographed in orbit by a passing US-owned commercial satellite in 2024, and we finally have the image.
这架中国航天飞机拥有三角翼、有效载荷舱门、深色隔热罩，以及装有发电用太阳能电池阵列的后置服务舱。换言之，这艘有翼飞船的设计在很大程度上是美国太空军运营的X-37B航天飞机的复制品。
The Chinese spaceplane has delta wings, payload bay doors, a dark heat shield, and a rear-mounted service module with power-generating solar arrays. In other words, the design of the winged ship is, to a great degree, a copy of the X-37B spaceplane flown by the US Space Force.
这张照片由一家名为Vantor的商业成像卫星拍摄，该公司在2024年被称为Maxar。Vantor是向美军和美国情报机构提供全球地点侦察影像的几家公司之一。同样的地球成像卫星也能将望远镜指向太空中的物体。
The photo was taken by a commercial imaging satellite owned by a company called Vantor, known as Maxar in 2024. Vantor is one of several companies that provide reconnaissance imagery of locations around the world to the US military and US intelligence agencies. The same Earth-imaging satellites can point their telescopes at objects in space.