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took off from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on the southern Chinese island of Hainan carrying the Queqiao-2 satellite.
Little is known about the two spacecraft, which are called DRO-A and DRO-B, but their names imply they were intended for distant retrograde orbit . DRO is a lunar orbit located high above the moon that moves opposite the moon's rotational direction around Earth.
Even NASA chief Bill Nelson has made hand-wringing comments about China's moon plans."It is a fact: we're in a space race," the NASA administrator."And it is true that we better watch out that they don't get to a place on the moon under the guise of scientific research. And it is not beyond the realm of possibility that they say, 'Keep out, we're here, this is our territory.
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