China space engineers kick ‘doomed’ satellite pair into life in lunar orbit


China has “kicked” two of its experimental satellites into their designated lunar orbit, five months after they were left in limbo when the launch rocket’s upper stage did not fire.

The satellites, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, were shown operating in their planned distant retrograde orbit (DRO) in a PowerPoint slide attributed to CAS that started circulating on social media platform Weibo from Tuesday.

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