🔗 Accidentally the first commercial lunar satellite.
🔗 Spaceflight
🔗 China
PAS-22, previously known as AsiaSat 3 and then HGS-1, was a geosynchronous communications satellite, which was salvaged from an unusable geosynchronous transfer orbit by means of the Moon's gravity.
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