NASA's uncrewed Artemis I Orion spacecraft has completed its powered flyby of the Moon and is now headed into a fuel-saving distant retrograde orbit (DRO) for the next few weeks before returning ...

The academy's "Earth-Moon DRO Exploration" flagship project achieved precise laser measurement of the DRO-A satellite, located about 350,000 kilometers away, using a pioneering single-corner-cube ...

Orion needs to perform two powered burns to enter DRO, the first of happened Monday morning, according to a NASA blog post. Orion captured this image of the Moon early Monday, prior to performing ...

China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation on the distant retrograde orbit (DRO) in the Earth-moon region of space, connecting them with stable inter ...

The world’s first three-satellite constellation on the distant retrograde orbit (DRO) of the Earth-Moon system has been successfully established by Chinese scientists. The development lays a ...

Neither state media nor China’s space authorities stated that DRO-A and B were intended to be moon-bound. However, a 2023 journal paper on high-precision relative navigation technology for ...

a small satellite in a distant retrograde orbit around the moon. DRO-A is one of two satellites involved in a complex, four-month-long mission rescue following a launch anomaly last year.

The world’s first satellite constellation in Earth-moon space is up and running ... from low Earth orbit to distant retrograde orbit (DRO), a region 310,000km to 450,000km (192,600-280,000 ...