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ION SCV-010
Commercial Orbital Transfer Vehicle · D-Orbit (Italy)
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ION SCV-010, continuing D-Orbit's orbital transfer vehicle program, ferrying small satellites from their shared rocket drop-off point to each one's own precise final orbit. Rideshare missions routinely carry a dozen or more unrelated satellites at once, and vehicles like this one are the reason none of them have to settle for the primary payload's orbit as a compromise.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 296–306 mi (476–492 km)
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- One orbit
- 94.1 minutes15.3 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 56192
- Int’l designator
- 2023-054Q
- Launched
- 2023
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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