D-Orbit

D-Orbit
Company typePrivate
IndustryAerospace
Founded2011 (2011)
Founders
  • Luca Rossettini
  • Renato Panesi
Headquarters
Italy
Products
Number of employees
200 (2022) 
Websitedorbit.space

D-Orbit (as in de-orbit) is a private aerospace company, headquartered in Italy. D-Orbit is mainly active in private spaceflight and space tug services, also known as orbital transfer vehicles (OTV).

D-Orbit has been operating commercial ION missions since September 2020, deploying satellites for Planet Labs, EnduroSat, Elecnor Deimos, University of Southern California, SatRevolution, and Kleos; and operating payloads for the German HPS, High Performance Space Structure Systems, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and the Swiss data security company Cysec SA.

The company has subsidiaries in Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States where it also has a joint venture, called D-Orbit USA.

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