BlackSky Releases Rare Satellite Image of Alleged Airship on Runway at Veiled Military Base in China

Published on May 2, 2023

United States-based geospatial intelligence company BlackSky Technology releases satellite imagery of an alleged ‘aerostat’ at China’s Korla East Test Site. An aerostat refers to a lighter-than-air aircraft. This is the first and only known image to be publicly released of the aerostat.

More than 1,000 images of the likely airship on the ground were collected over the course of one year. The release comes after a diplomatic crisis primarily between the United States and China after the latter’s high-altitutde surveillance balloon was discovered over American territory. The data uncovered by BlackSky may indicate that the aerostat is of the high-altitude platform station (HAPS) variety.

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