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China deploys world's first three-satellite constellation on distant retrograde orbit
(www.chinadaily.com.cn)
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A distant retrograde orbit (DRO), as most commonly conceived, is a spacecraft or it around a moon that is highly stable because of its interactions with two Lagrange points of the planet–moon system.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_retrograde_orbit