China's Tiandu-1 Achieves First-Ever Resonant Earth-Moon Orbit
TL;DR
China's Tiandu-1 satellite has entered a 3:1 Earth-moon resonant orbit, a potential breakthrough for lunar infrastructure, but US and Canadian experts contest the claim of it being the first, citing NASA's IBEX probe in 2011 that achieved a similar orbit.
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- Is China’s Tiandu-1 first to enter resonant Earth-moon orbit? US raises doubts South China Morning Post
- Xinhua News | Chinese lunar probe shifts to complex orbit in world first Xinhua
- China's Tiandu probe enters complex Earth-moon resonant orbit in world first chinadailyasia.com
- Xinhua: Tiandu-1 satellite launched into a resonant orbit of the Earth and the Moon Ореанда-Новости
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