Mission record
Long March 2C/YZ-1S | DRO-A/B
Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Provider type
Government
Orbit
LO
Mission type
Technology
Launch site
China
Date
Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:51:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#6638 ever
Failure
Upper stage problem; payload deployed to wrong orbit.
Mission
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.