China uses ‘gravity slingshots’ to rescue two satellites stuck in wrong orbit for 123 days

A visualization of the recovered satellites. (Image courtesy of CSU) On March 15 at 8:15 p.m. Beijing time (March 14 at 8:42 p.m. EST; 5:42 p.m. PT), China launched two satellites on a Long March-2C rocket carrying a Yuanzheng-1S module.…










