Launch Details

Space launch mission information

Long March 2C/YZ-1S | DRO-A/B

Launch was a Partial Failure
546 days ago3/13/2024, 12:39:00 PM
Long March 2C/YZ-1S | DRO-A/B

Mission Description

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.

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Mission Updates

Cosmic_Penguin

Cosmic_Penguin

3/11/2024, 3:21:02 AM

Added launch per NOTAMs; launch vehicle and payload identities highly uncertain.

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hitura-nobad

hitura-nobad

3/13/2024, 2:41:16 PM

Liftoff confirmed

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Cosmic_Penguin

Cosmic_Penguin

3/14/2024, 8:34:59 AM

Upper stage problem sent payload to wrong orbit; independent orbit determination results pending.

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Launch Details

Launch Window

3/13/2024, 12:39:00 PM

to 3/13/2024, 12:59:00 PM

Rocket Details

Long March 2C/YZ-1S

Family: Long March

Variant: C/YZ-1S

Launch Facility

Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1)

Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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