flown missionPartial Failure

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

China Aerospace Science and Technology CorporationLaunch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1) — Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Either the launch vehicle reached orbit but did not deliver its payload in the targeted orbit, or an exceptional event made it impossible to consider the mission a success.

mission

Name
DRO-A/B
Type
Technology
Target orbit
Lunar Orbit (LO)

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.

schedule

NET (no earlier than)
Window opens
Window closes
Last updated
Fail reason
Upper stage problem; payload deployed to wrong orbit.

vehicle & provider

Rocket
Long March 2C/YZ-1S
Family
Long March
Variant
C/YZ-1S
Provider
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Type
Government
Country
CHN

launch site

Pad
Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1)
Location
Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Country
CHN
Timezone
Asia/Shanghai