[Neocp_artsats] A11sbtE = DRO-B = 2024-048D
Bill Gray
pluto at projectpluto.com
Thu Sep 18 13:59:12 EDT 2025
Hello all,
This is DRO-B (Chinese lunar mission, currently in a high orbit).
Looks as if it did a maneuver, probably a couple of days ago. It
doesn't look to be a very large one, but it was enough to pull it away
from the predicted position.
I've updated TLEs to reflect this, and ephems and identifications
from my site should be reasonably okay. But with only the one tracklet
post-maneuver, ephems are probably going to turn out to be a little
sketchy. It's quite likely to end up back on NEOCP.
Once somebody gets another tracklet on it, the time and delta-V
vector for the maneuver should be better constrained, and I'll update
the orbit again, and we should be okay again (until the next maneuver).
-- Bill
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