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ION SCV-006
Commercial Orbital Transfer Vehicle · D-Orbit (Italy)
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ION SCV-006, one of D-Orbit's orbital transfer vehicles, deploying rideshare satellites individually to their own final orbits — a satellite whose entire job is being a bus for other, smaller satellites.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 259–274 mi (417–441 km)
- Inclination
- 97.6°
- One orbit
- 93.0 minutes15.5 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 52761
- Int’l designator
- 2022-057AF
- Launched
- 2022
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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