Italian company D-Orbit has been launching customer payloads aboard its Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTVs) for the past five years. In that time, the company has positioned itself as a reliable space transportation provider and hosting platform.
The company now plans to extend into on-orbit servicing and refueling missions, end-of-mission disposal, and cross-orbit transportation, including to lunar orbits. NSF spoke with the company’s VP of Business Development, Stefano Antonetti, about D-Orbit’s plans to expand from movers to maintainers as it continues to build Europe’s future in space.