Originally Posted by crockett

If I had to bet, my guess is its some sort of anti-spy satellite tool. China has been working on anti satellite weapons for some time now, so my gues is that is what this is. Its probably a tool they can use to steal info from other spy satellites or maybe even scramble the signals of other satellites to make them usesless at certian times.

That or its carrying a very good camera system to they can get better spy pictures/video.