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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.

Launch vehicle

Long March 2C/YZ-1S →

Launch provider

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation →

Payloads deployed · 2