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ORBITER SN3
Commercial Multi-Payload Hosting Satellite · Aurora Propulsion Technologies / Commercial
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Orbiter SN3, a commercial small satellite hosting multiple unrelated customer payloads on a single shared bus — part of the growing 'satellite as a service' industry where companies rent orbital real estate rather than build and launch an entire dedicated spacecraft.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 284–290 mi (457–467 km)
- Inclination
- 97.6°
- One orbit
- 93.7 minutes15.4 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 56960
- Int’l designator
- 2023-084AE
- Launched
- 2023
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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