D-Orbit

[3] D-Orbit has been operating commercial ION missions since September 2020,[3] deploying satellites for customers like Planet Labs,[4] EnduroSat, Elecnor Deimos,[5] University of Southern California,[6] SatRevolution,[7] and Kleos,[8] and operating payloads for the German HPS, High Performance Space Structure Systems,[9] the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC),[10] and the Swiss data security company Cysec SA.

Through the course of a mission, ION Satellite Carrier can travel across orbits characterized by different orientation, altitude, and local time of ascending node (LTAN),[23] deploy the satellites on board into custom, individual orbital slots[21] and perform experiments on hosted payloads in the designated operating envelope.

The RocketStar Drive harnesses the power of nuclear fusion to improve the performance of RocketStar’s “water-fueled pulsed plasma thruster.”[25] In the process, boronated water is injected into the exhaust plume of a pulsed plasma thruster, developing ionizing radiation and increased the base propulsion by 50%.

[27][9][4] In January 2021, D-Orbit launched a second ION mission, Pulse, which successfully deployed 20 satellites after performing a 10km orbit raise and demonstrated the ability to change the local time of the ascending node (LTAN).

[23][9][5] During its third mission, launched in June 2021, the company deployed six satellites and demonstrated 12 hosted payloads, including D-Orbit's proprietary in-orbit cloud computing platform and data storage service built in collaboration with Swedish-based AI company Unibap, which performed 23 SpaceCloud compatible applications.

[33] The sixth mission, Infinite Blue launched on 25 May 2022,[34][35] deployed Guardian for Aistech Space and SBUDNIC for Brown University.

[36] Two of D-Orbit's space tug's were launched on SpaceX's Transporter-6 mission on 3 January 2023, to release nine satellites: four cubesats for a data relay and asset tracking constellation owned by the Swiss company Astrocast, two for Futura which includes NPS Spacemind, Kelpie, a 9-pound (4-kilogram) CubeSat to provide maritime tracking services for Orbcomm, Sharjah Sat 1 for Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, and TauSat 2 for Tel Aviv University.