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    A cube-shaped satellite with solar panels and red components on the sides is being assembled in a lab with white walls and various equipment in the background.
    D-Orbit’s fifth ION Satellite Carrier at the company’s Italy headquarters before its April launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. Two of the customer satellites can be seen peeking over the top of the black solar panels that encase the cube-shaped dispenser. The silver box at left covers ION’s propulsion tanks, and the red boxes cover multisensor modules.
    A rocket is launching into the sky, leaving a trail of smoke and fire, with clouds in the background and green foliage in the foreground.
    After this SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched an ION Satellite Carrier and its six satellites to orbit last year, the carrier hosted on-orbit demonstrations of cloud computing methods and a laser communication terminal, among other technologies.