"Lightning" Escape Capsule

"Lightning" escape capsule.

The whole capsule body was dark, and it was made of a titanium alloy. The surface was coated with a high-temperature resistant ceramic. It could allow one person to safely land from low-Earth orbit. There was a payload fairing at the top of the capsule, but it was abandoned on its way back to earth.

Even though the height of this test was not 1,000 kilometers, the 100-kilometer height was still record-breaking.

This escape capsule was installed on Skyglow.

On its re-entry, at an altitude of around 100 kilometers, Skyglow tested the escape capsule while it was flying over China's western area. It released the "lightning" escape capsule from the spacecraft, and it landed at the center of the Junggar Basin.

This was the final task in Skyglow's 24-hour flight.