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UNICORN-2L
Commercial Technology Demonstrator · Commercial Operator
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Unicorn-2L, a commercial technology demonstration satellite testing compact sensor and communications hardware for future small-satellite missions, part of the broader wave of low-cost technology demonstrators that modern rideshare launches have made increasingly routine and affordable. Technology demonstrators at this scale rarely attract individual press coverage, but they collectively form the unglamorous engineering foundation underneath more capable operational missions that follow years later.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 307–317 mi (494–510 km)
- Inclination
- 97.5°
- One orbit
- 94.5 minutes15.2 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 58727
- Int’l designator
- 2023-185R
- Launched
- 2023
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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