Provenance Record

Well-structured intelligence/tracking story using Overview / What We Know / What We Don't Know / Analysis sections. Appropriately hedged language ('appears to have released', 'assessed with high confidence') throughout. The piece correctly frames the event as a commercial-radar detection by LeoLabs rather than a confirmed Chinese government deployment, and explicitly notes China has never publicly confirmed these objects.

All 3 snapshots personally read from disk. source-0.html.gz (SpaceNews, 200) confirms: Long March 2F launch from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert 'Feb. 7 local time', raise to roughly circular 593-km altitude, fourth mission, the verbatim 'unknown object in the vicinity of the Chinese Shenlong reusable spaceplane' quote, '10:30 p.m. Eastern, June 21 (0230 UTC, June 22)' timing, Kiwi Space Radar in New Zealand, did-not-correlate-to-catalog, the verbatim 'Following additional observations across our global network and analysis via LeoLabs Delta...' quote, Space-track-not-yet-listing, subsatellite pattern, second/third-mission RPO sentence, 'peaceful use of space' Xinhua quote, and X-37B similarity quote. source-1.html.gz (Space.com, 200) confirms: verbatim '02:30 UTC on 22 June 2026' detection quote, verbatim 'consistent with sub-satellite deployments conducted by the space plane in previous missions' quote, and 'fourth mission'. source-2.html.gz (Gizmodo, 200) confirms: verbatim 'some of which even emitted various signals while in orbit', verbatim 'China has not announced or confirmed... cataloged by the U.S. military', and the Boeing X-37 eighth mission OTV-8 launched August 21, 2025.

Every specific (Feb. 7 launch, Long March 2F, Jiuquan/Gobi, 593 km, June 21/June 22 detection times, Kiwi Space Radar/New Zealand, OTV-8 August 21 2025) traces to the cited source. No fabricated catalog numbers or object designations — the article explicitly states the object had not yet appeared in the Space-track catalog. All four direct quotes are verbatim against their snapshots.

High-quality, accurately attributed intelligence/tracking story. Detection correctly credited to LeoLabs commercial radar, unconfirmed elements properly hedged, all quotes verbatim, all specifics sourced, launch-date discrepancy handled cleanly. Ready for publication.