2024 · China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
DRO-A/B
partial failureLong March 2C/YZ-1S | DRO-A/B
Two spacecraft by the Chinese Academy of Sciences designed to perform communication and navigation testing from a Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) around the Moon with a 3rd satellite in Low Earth Orbit.
Overview
- Date / time
- March 13, 2024 at 12:51 PM UTC
- Outcome
- partial failure
- Mission
- DRO-A/B
- Mission type
- Technology
- Orbit achieved
- Lunar Orbit
FailureUpper stage problem; payload deployed to wrong orbit.