The discursive shield with which the political powers of Tierra del Fuego and their "experts" attempted to justify the installation of the British radar at the "El Relincho" ranch has suffered another fatal blow. An investigation published by the Spanish press in recent hours revealed that the firmLeoLabs was key to detecting a mysterious unidentified military object released into space by China's secret aerospace aircraft,Shenlong ("Divine Dragon").

The incident, which occurred on June 22, only serves to confirm what Agenda Malvinas and several Argentine media outlets have been maintaining since June 2023, and which the newly formed Investigative Commission of the provincial legislature seeks to unravel: the multinational's sensors are not simply "observers of space debris," but active tools of the military intelligence of the United States and its allies.

The "Divine Dragon" under the LeoLabs microscope

Reusable space planes are one of the best-kept military secrets of powers like China and the US. The Asian Shenlong took off on February 7th from the Gobi Desert on a strictly classified mission. However, its entire secrecy strategy backfired, thwarted by the company's global tracking network.

At 02:30 UTC on 22 June 2026, LeoLabs detected an unknown object in the vicinity of the Chinese Shenlong reusable spaceplane.

This object did not correlate to any other object in our catalog. It was first observed by our Tracker radar in New Zealand. pic.twitter.com/AEf4gbyJPr

It was precisely a radar system identical to the one at Tolhuin, located in New Zealand, that detected with millimeter precision an unknown object operating very close to the Chinese spacecraft. After processing the data from its computer network, the company concluded that the object had been released by the spy plane and noted that it did not correspond to any commercial satellite or cataloged fragment. Hours later, international astronomers confirmed the discovery and detailed that the United States Space Force — LeoLabs' main client —immediately used this information to launch a tracking operation on the device, which has clear surveillance capabilities and potential for inter-orbit warfare.

The local lie: Were they ignorant or complicit?

This international revelation shamefully exposes the official narrative constructed in Tierra del Fuego. Both Governor Gustavo Melella and Dr. José Luis Hormaechea —former head of the Río Grande Astronomical Station and also a technical consultant for LeoLabs on the island—maintained for years the position that the Tolhuin radar was harmless and that its technology was limited to the civilian tracking of space debris.

The case of the Chinese spy plane demonstrates that radar's capabilities are strictly dual . The sensor measures, calibrates, detects, and processes strategic data in real time regarding the tactical movements of rival powers in Washington and London. If the New Zealand radar was able to expose Beijing's secret program, the identical radar illegally installed in the heart of Tierra del Fuego's main island possesses the same capacity to monitor the South Atlantic and Antarctica, thereby undermining Argentina's aerospace sovereignty.

Advertising won't hide the truth

This international news report comes at a critical moment for the province. With the Special Investigative Commission of the Tierra del Fuego legislature now fully operational, it has been revealed that the British corporation has decided to resist Judge Gustavo González 's closure order, appealing the ruling and petitioning the National Cabinet Office to try to recover its radio spectrum licenses.

While the Melella government obscenely distributes billions of pesos in advertising to force a media blackout on the case in local news outlets, international reality contradicts this on news sites around the world.

The parliamentary investigative committee now has in its possession the complaint from the Ushuaia War Veterans Centers , which demands the mandatory appearance of Melella and Hormaechea himself. The veterans are not part of the investigative committee to dig up "old documents" ; they are there to demand explanations as to why the door was opened to a global espionage technology that is now being promoted in Europe for detecting secret spacecraft, while in Tierra del Fuego they tried to make their population believe they were monitoring space debris in the sky. The historical truth has begun to emerge, and there is no official policy that can stop it.

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