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ION SCV-002
Commercial Orbital Transfer Vehicle · D-Orbit (Italy)
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ION SCV-002, one of D-Orbit's orbital transfer vehicles — a satellite whose entire job is carrying other, smaller satellites to their individual final orbits after a shared rocket ride, then deploying them one at a time like a bus dropping off passengers at different stops.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 263–274 mi (424–441 km)
- Inclination
- 97.1°
- One orbit
- 93.1 minutes15.5 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 47504
- Int’l designator
- 2021-006CV
- Launched
- 2021
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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