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SHERPA-AC1
Commercial Orbital Transfer Vehicle · Spaceflight Inc.
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Sherpa-AC1, one of Spaceflight Inc.'s orbital transfer vehicles, testing an electric propulsion variant of the Sherpa platform used to ferry rideshare payloads to their individual custom orbits.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 281–288 mi (452–464 km)
- Inclination
- 97.7°
- One orbit
- 93.6 minutes15.4 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 52763
- Int’l designator
- 2022-057AH
- Launched
- 2022
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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