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ION SCV-004
Commercial Orbital Transfer Vehicle · D-Orbit (Italy)
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ION SCV-004, part of D-Orbit's fleet of orbital transfer vehicles carrying multiple small satellites to their individual final orbits after a shared rocket launch.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 293–299 mi (471–481 km)
- Inclination
- 97.3°
- One orbit
- 94.0 minutes15.3 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 50993
- Int’l designator
- 2022-002K
- Launched
- 2022
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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