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 established a partner network in 2018 that includes satellite manufacturers LeoStella, Maxar Technologies, OHB/LuxSpace, Satrec Initiative, and Blue Canyon Technologies, along with partners in launch, ground communications, and analytics.
Eutelsat said the AAC Clyde Space satellites and Loft Orbital hosted payloads will cost the company no more than 1,000,000 EUR each.
The first of Loft Orbital’s condosats for Eutelsat, YAM-2, is slated to launch on India’s PSLV rocket between 2019-02-01 and 2019-04-30.
Loft Orbital will build two 8-kilogram payloads for Eutelsat and fly them on two 80-kilogram multi-customer condosats that Loft Orbital plans to launch in 2020.
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy can loft 26,700 kg to geostationary transfer orbit using three liquid-fueled rocket cores.
Delta 4 Heavy uses three liquid-propellant rocket boosters on its first stage to loft 14,200 kg to geostationary transfer orbit.
OneWeb agreed in 2015 to pay Virgin Orbit $234 million, or $6,000,000 per launch, to loft its satellites one or two at a time using Virgin Orbit’s air-launched LauncherOne vehicle.
Launcher plans to develop Rocket-1 to loft 773 kg to a 200-kilometer orbit with test flights starting in 2024.
Loft Orbital does not build satellites but is developing a payload hub to serve as a universal adapter to fit customer payloads inside different spacecraft buses.
Loft Orbital raised $3,200,000 in 2017.
Fugro, a Netherlands-based geologic data company that generated €1.65 billion in revenue last year, has a payload launching on a future Loft Orbital satellite as a tech demo mission only.
The second OS-M1 is 19 m tall and weighs 20 metric tons and is designed to loft a 205-kilogram payload to 300-kilometer low Earth orbit.
The OS-M1 was designed to loft a 205-kilogram payload to 300-kilometer low Earth orbit (LEO).
The 29-meter-tall Long March 6 can loft over 1,000 kg into a sun-synchronous orbit and has a 2.6-meter-diameter fairing.
A nominal Long March 5 return-to-flight would clear the way for a test launch of the Long March 5B, a variant designed to loft 20-metric-ton Chinese Space Station modules into low Earth orbit.
A previous Chinese human lunar mission concept relied on the Long March 9 super-heavy-lift launcher with a 10-meter diameter that China aims to fly in 2028 and included an Earth-orbit rendezvous using a Long March 5B to loft the crew.
Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket is designed to loft up to 8,000 kg to low Earth orbit and is the closest match to Delta 2’s capability.
A nominal Long March 5 flight would clear the way for a test flight of the Long March 5B variant designed to loft 20-metric-ton space station modules into low Earth orbit.
Loft Orbital raised $3,200,000 in 2019 to build and operate a constellation of satellites for customers.
Interstellar Technologies' orbital rocket will use a liquid-oxygen and kerosene gas-generator cycle and is designed to loft 100 kg to 500 to 700-kilometer sun-synchronous orbits.