China Rescues Stranded Lunar Satellites

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China Rescues Stranded Lunar Satellites

China has managed to deliver a pair of satellites into lunar orbit despite the spacecraft initially being stranded in low Earth orbit following a rocket failure, using a mix of complex calculations, precise engine burns, and astrodynamic ingenuity.China launched the DRO-A and B satellites on 13 March last year on a Long March 2C rocket, aiming to send the pair into a distant retrograde orbit (DRO) around the moon. However, the rocket’s Yuanzheng…