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DEMO8 (TENZING)
Commercial Orbital Transfer Vehicle · Spaceflight Inc.
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Demo8 (Tenzing), one of Spaceflight Inc.'s Sherpa orbital transfer vehicles — essentially a space tug that picks up multiple small satellites from a single rocket's drop-off point and delivers each to its own custom final orbit.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 244–249 mi (392–400 km)
- Inclination
- 97.7°
- One orbit
- 92.3 minutes15.6 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 48951
- Int’l designator
- 2021-059CA
- Launched
- 2021
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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