ION-SCV 002 [D-Orbit]
The ION-SCV 002 Laurentius (ION - Satellite Carrier Vehicle), developed by Italian company D-Orbit, is a free-flying CubeSat deployer and technology demonstrator. The CubeSat carrier will host several CubeSats to be deployed once in orbit.
ION-SVC-2 is the first flight of the improved propulsive ION mk02 platform. Positioned in a sun-synchronous orbit at 500 km, ION-SCV 002 will deploy the hosted CubeSats one by one along the orbit in precise orbital slots, according to customer’s specifications. After the CubeSat deployment phase, which may last up to one month, ION CubeSat Carrier will initiate the in-orbit validation phase of payloads directly integrated on the platform.
During the mission, named PULSE, the ION SCV 002 Laurentius will deploy 20 CubeSats in orbit - 8 Flock-4s and 12 SpaceBEE.
It also hosts a number of non-deployable experiments, which include:
It was launched on a Falcon-9 v1.2 in 2021 from Cape Canaveral.
Nation: | Italy |
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Type / Application: | Satellite deployment |
Operator: | D-Orbit |
Contractors: | D-Orbit |
Equipment: | CubeSat deployers |
Configuration: | ION mk02 platform |
Propulsion: | ? |
Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
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Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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ION-SCV 002 (ION-SCV Laurentius) | 2021-006CV | 24.01.2021 | CC SLC-40 | Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5) | with Starlink v1.0 R1-1, ..., R1-10, QPS-SAR 2, Capella 3, 4, ICEYE X8, X9, XR 1, GHGSat C2, Hawk 2A, 2B, 2C, Sherpa-FX 1, ION-SCV 002, AII-Charlie, Hiber 4, ASELSAT, PIXL 1, SOMP 2b, IDEASSat, YUSAT 1, UVSQ-SAT, V-R3x 1, 2, 3, Flock-4s 1, ..., 48, Kepler 8, ..., 15, Astrocast 0101, ..., 0105, SpaceBEE 40, ..., 75, Lemur-2 130, ..., 137, PTD 1, Prometheus-2 10, ARCE 1A, 1B, 1C |