The platform features a customizable 64U satellite dispenser capable of hosting a combination of CubeSats that fits the volume.
The organization also developed a D3 (D-Orbit Decommissioning Device) system, which has obtained funding from the European Commission and the European Space Agency, to safely dispose of satellites at the end of their lives and avoid adding to the problems created by the approximately 130 million pieces of space debris.
This will involve using local resources such as dead satellites to create spaceships in space.
[4] The vehicle, named ION SCV Lucas, carried 12 SuperDove satellites from Planet Labs.
[2][5] The carrier deployed CubeSats one by one using a spring release mechanism once positioned in a Sun-synchronous orbit at 500 km.