NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Partial Failure

DRO-A/B

Launch Time
Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:51 UTC

Upper stage problem; payload deployed to wrong orbit.

Rocket

Long March 2C/YZ-1S
Image Credit: CASC
CASC
Status: Active
Price: $30.8 million
Liftoff Thrust: 2,962 kN
Payload to LEO: 2,850 kg
Payload to GTO: 1,000 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 38.83 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.35 m
Fairing Height: 8.37 m

Mission Details

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.

Payloads: 2
Trans Lunar Injection

Location

LC-3, Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China

Stats

2024

49th orbital launch attempt

Long March 2C

77th mission
3rd mission of 2024