Distant retrograde orbit

[3] Two more CNSA spacecraft, DRO A and B, attempted in 2024, but were left in lower orbits due to a failure of the YZ-1S upper stage.

[1] After dropping off return samples for Earth, China's Chang'e 5 (CE-5) orbiter first moved to Sun-Earth Lagrange point 1 (L1) in March 2021 for solar observations.

[2] In February 2022, multiple amateur satellite trackers observed CE-5 had entered DRO, making it the first spacecraft in history to utilize the orbit.

[9][10] Yuanzheng 1S upper stage failed to deliver these two CAS spacecrafts (not under CLEP) into correct orbit.

In the 2019 Daniel Suarez novel Delta-v, a 560-tonne crewed asteroid-mining ship Konstantin is constructed in a lunar DRO approximately 40,000 km (25,000 mi) above the Moon.

Chang'e 5 spacecraft with orbiter at bottom
Orion spacecraft prior to arriving at the Moon, where it would later get into DRO