Loft Orbital is a space infrastructure-as-a-service provider that simplifies access to space for organizations. They build and operate satellites, flying customer payloads and handling missions end-to-end. Loft Orbital's key offerings include standardized satellite platforms, payload integration services, and mission control software, serving customers like NASA, Microsoft, and the US Space Force. Associated keywords include: space infrastructure, hosted payloads, satellite missions, and space-as-a-service.
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Loft Orbital is actively recruiting workers for Loft Federal, which is based in Golden, Colorado.
John Eterno was named general manager of Loft Federal.
Loft Orbital is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has operations in Toulouse, France.
Airbus Defence and Space ordered more than 70 ANYWAVES products linked to a contract signed directly with Loft Orbital and ordered 10 additional products for its CO3D constellation.
Azure Orbital created an intelligent hosting platform software that runs on spacecraft operated by Ball Aerospace, Loft Orbital, Thales Alenia Space, and Xplore.
Loft Orbital has contracted more than 20 satellites to be flown by 2025.
Loft Orbital procures qualified commodity satellite buses in advance to deliver payloads to orbit in months rather than years.
Beyond Gravity will supply Power Control & Distribution Unit (PCDU) equipment for Loft Orbital’s Longbow spacecraft based on the Airbus Arrow platform.
Beyond Gravity has been selected to supply equipment for Loft Orbital’s Longbow spacecraft based on the Airbus Arrow platform.
Loft Orbital has a $150,000,000 contract to integrate the EarthDaily satellites and payloads, arrange the launch, and operate the constellation for 10 years.
Loft Orbital will provide the EarthDaily satellites based on the OneWeb platform.
EarthDaily Analytics plans to gather daily imagery of Earth’s landmass with a constellation of 10 satellites provided by Loft Orbital.
EarthDaily Analytics selected condosat operator Loft Orbital to build, launch, and operate a fleet of 10 Earth-observation satellites in 2023.
Airbus Defence and Space was selected by Loft Orbital to supply more than 15 satellite platforms.
ANYWAVES was selected by Airbus Defence and Space to supply more than 70 products for the satellites to be deployed by Loft Orbital.
The contract between ANYWAVES, Airbus, and Loft Orbital was signed in the first half of 2022.
ANYWAVES signed a contract to supply antennas that will equip the satellite platforms ordered by Loft Orbital.
Amazon plans to loft up to 3,236 satellites into orbit via 68 contracted launches on heavy-lift launch vehicles.
CASC figures show the Long March 8 (360,000 kg) can loft 5,000 kg to a 700-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit and its single-core variant (200,000 kg) can loft 3,000 kg to the same orbit.
San Francisco-based Loft Orbital ordered more than 15 OneWeb-derived satellite buses from Airbus in January 2022.