Above the Sky Mission Launched on Transporter 8
Among the payloads on the SpaceX Transporter 8 mission was "Above the Sky", the 11th commercial mission of their proprietary orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) ION Satellite Carrier (ION) to be launched by D-Orbit. The OTV was successfully deployed 80 minutes after lift off into a 525km (≈326 mile) sun-synchronous orbit.
“We are proud to start our eleventh m…
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