Planetary Science
DRO-A
OperationalPlanetary ScienceLunar
A distant retrograde orbit (DRO), as most commonly conceived, is a spacecraft orbit around a moon that is highly stable because of its interactions with two Lagrange points (L1 and L2) of the planet–moon system.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 13, 2024 at 12:51 PM UTC
- Launch site
- XICLF
- Launched by
- Long March 2C/YZ-1S →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- DRO-A/B
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2024-048A
- NORAD catalog №
- 59228
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Status
- Operational