Multiple International Firsts! China's DRO Test Satellite Achieves Series of Breakthroughs After Two Years in Orbit

People’s Financial News, March 25 — According to reports from the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum—“Space and Lunar Space Development and Utilization Technology Forum” held on March 25, three experimental satellites from the China Academy of Sciences’ independently deployed lunar-space remote-distance reverse orbit (DRO) pioneering exploration mission have been conducting experiments in orbit for two years. They achieved the world’s first low-energy insertion into DRO orbit, verified the spacecraft’s stable residence in DRO, low-energy maneuver transfer, and new principles for space-based measurement, orbit determination, and navigation. They established a K-band inter-satellite link spanning 1.17 million kilometers and became the world’s first spacecraft to complete all Lagrange point visits between Earth and the Moon in one mission. They will play an important role in supporting lunar exploration and other fields in the future. (CCTV News)