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 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 ...

The DRO-A and B satellites launched March 13, intended for distant retrograde orbit. DROs are stable orbits in which spacecraft orbit the moon in an opposite direction to the moon’s rotation ...

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 ...

The maneuver changed the velocity of the spacecraft by about 110 meters per second, placing the spacecraft into a distant retrograde orbit (DRO) around the moon. The use of DRO is unique to Artemis 1.

They were supposed to go to distant retrograde orbit — the DRO in the pair's name — around the moon, to help provide navigation and tracking for spacecraft in Earth-moon space. The rocket's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...