DRO-A/B

Launch Partial Failure

Liftoff Time (GMT)

12:51:00

Wednesday March 13, 2024

Mission Details

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Launch Notes

Upper stage problem; payload deployed to wrong orbit.

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.

Trans Lunar Injection

2 Payloads

Rocket

Active
Long March 2C/YZ-1S

Active Since 2018

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation logo

Agency

CASC

Price

$30.80 million

Rocket

Height: 38.83m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 2,850 kg

GTO: 1,000 kg

Liftoff Thrust

2,962 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 3.35m

Height: 8.37m

Stages

3

Launch Site

LC-3

Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China

Fastest Turnaround

16 days 15 hours

Stats

Long March 2C


77th

Mission

3rd

Mission of 2024

2024


49th

Orbital launch attempt