Breeze Holdings Acquisition Corp. SPAC Merger Partner D-Orbit Highlights Launch Of Sixth ION Satellite Carrier Mission

D-Orbit, the space logistics and orbital transportation company in the process of going public through a transaction with Breeze Holdings Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:BREZ), today launched Infinite Blue aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission. Infinite Blue is the sixth commercial mission for D-Orbit’s proprietary orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), ION Satellite Carrier (ION).

The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off today, May 25, 2022, at 14:35 EDT from the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), Florida. ION, a versatile and cost-effective OTV designed both to precisely deploy satellites and perform technology demonstrations of third-party payloads in orbit, was successfully deployed 1h 9m 22s after lift-off into a 525-kilometer Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO).

“We are thrilled to have successfully launched our sixth commercial ION mission,” said Renato Panesi, Ph.D., D-Orbit’s Chief Commercial Officer. “We are continuing to ramp up our launch schedule and expand our client base while steadily progressing along our roadmap. I’m proud of our proven technology, our team, and the amazing milestones we are achieving together, mission after mission.”

With the launch successfully completed, D-Orbit’s mission control team is executing the mission’s Launch and Early Orbit phase (LEOP), performing a series of health check procedures in preparation for the operational phase.

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During the mission, ION SCV006 will deploy:

• Guardian, a 6U CubeSat developed by Aistech carrying a multispectral telescope equipped with visible (RGB), near infrared (NIR), and thermal infrared (TIR) sensors. The imaging payload is focused on commercial services addressing markets linked to environmental sustainability.
• SBUDNIC, a 3U CubeSat developed by Brown University in collaboration with the Institute on Atmospheric Pollution of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IIA). Through its fish-eye cameras, the spacecraft will collect and transmit panoramic views of space to Earth from the satellite to be promoted through social media, sponsorship campaigns, and school partnerships. Following an Open Architecture philosophy, the project’s goal is to inspire future engineers to advance space exploration in universities, research, and industry and contribute to ongoing efforts proving the accessibility of space. After its mission is complete, SBUDNIC will deploy a drag sail to deorbit itself.

This mission will also include the in-orbit demonstration of two third-party hosted payloads:

• A prototype nanosatellite developed by Cryptosat for secure cryptographic applications such as electronic voting, trusted random beacon, and verifiable delay enforcement for smart contracts.
• Gen-01 a new type of space propulsion system developed by Genergo to further push the boundaries of what is possible in space travel.

Infinite Blue is ION’s sixth mission in less than two years and the third in 2022. D-Orbit launched its first ION in September 2020 aboard an Arianespace VEGA launcher, then four further missions aboard SpaceX Transporter missions. With this launch, the Company will have transported to space more than 80 payloads collectively.

The Company has three more ION launches scheduled for the remainder of 2022.