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D-Orbit launched its In-Orbit Now (ION) Satellite Carrier on 2020-09-03 on an Arianespace Vega rocket.
Origin is the first commercial flight of the ION Satellite Carrier, which was designed, manufactured, and is operated by D-Orbit.
D-Orbit raised more than $10,000,000 in a March investment round led by Italian venture capital firms.
D-Orbit's ION deployed the first of 12 Planet SuperDoves on 2020-09-25 and released the final satellite on 2020-10-28.
D-Orbit completed a two-month campaign on 2020-10-28 by delivering 12 Planet SuperDove Earth-imaging satellites in orbit as the first commercial last-mile delivery service.
D-Orbit is debriefing the Origin mission in preparation for the launch of ION SCV LAURENTIUS, the second flight of an upgraded ION Satellite Carrier, slated for December 2020.
The European Investment Bank is providing D-Orbit with 15,000,000 EUR to scale up its business.
D-Orbit delivered its first ION Satellite Carrier and successfully tested the carrier's orbital transport system.
Planet had 26 SuperDove cubesats on Vega, including 14 that used QuadPack deployers from Innovative Solutions in Space arranged by Spaceflight and 12 aboard D-Orbit’s inaugural ION Satellite Carrier.
D-Orbit had been waiting to launch its first ION deployer since September and was delayed by the July 2019 failure of a Vega rocket.
D-Orbit will launch an upgraded ION deployer in December on a SpaceX Falcon 9 that is capable of in-space maneuvers.
D-Orbit plans to demonstrate its InOrbit Now (ION) rideshare service in March 2020 when an ION cubesat carrier is scheduled to launch on an Arianespace Vega rocket.
D-Orbit plans to hire about 30 additional employees in the next year.
D-Orbit employs 60 people at its Como, Italy headquarters and subsidiaries in Lisbon, London, and Washington.
With the funding announced 2019-12-16, D-Orbit plans to fill out its launch manifest for 2021 and 2022 and continue work on an upgraded ION with propulsion.
Landspace reached agreements with UK-based Open Cosmos and Italy-based D-Orbit related to Zhuque-2 in April 2019.
D-Orbit will act as the NOCTUA prime contractor developing an end-to-end territorial monitoring service based on a SAR satellite.
A consortium led by Italian space company D-Orbit plans to operate a synthetic aperture radar satellite for infrastructure monitoring in two and a half years.
D-Orbit has 58 employees and is based in Como, Italy, with subsidiaries in Lisbon, London, and Washington.
D-Orbit will manage the satellite and the SAR payload for the NOCTUA program.