Partial Failure
Long March 2C/YZ-1S | DRO-A/B
Failure reason: Upper stage problem; payload deployed to wrong orbit.
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.
Mission type: Technology · Orbit: Lunar Orbit
Rocket: Long March 2C/YZ-1S · Provider: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Launch pad
Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China · View on map (opens in new tab)