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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The Loft Federal order was received in late 2022 and was accounted for in Mynaric’s previously disclosed optical communications terminal backlog as of 2022-12-31.
Nineteen satellite buses built by LeoStella have been launched to orbit, including 16 for BlackSky’s Earth observation constellation and three for satellites made by Loft Orbital.
Loft Federal will use Loft Orbital’s turnkey satellite platform for SDA NExT.
Loft Federal will use Loft Orbital’s Cockpit satellite operations software to provide a secure, fast, and simple path to orbit.
Loft Orbital’s turnkey satellite platform leverages the flight-proven Longbow bus with more than 500 examples on orbit.
Loft Orbital has an inventory of more than 30 pre-ordered satellite buses.
Loft Orbital will continue to work with multiple satellite bus suppliers rather than consolidate orders with a single supplier.
Loft Orbital has a contract with EarthDaily Analytics from January 2022 to build and operate a 10-satellite Earth observation constellation.
Loft Orbital ordered an additional 15 Longbow satellite buses from Airbus OneWeb Satellites on 2023-04-06.
Loft Orbital previously ordered satellites from LeoStella, Raytheon, and another company that Loft declined to disclose.
Loft Orbital raised $140,000,000 in late 2021 to support its plans.
Loft Orbital calls the satellite buses it ordered from Airbus OneWeb Satellites Longbow.
Loft Orbital ordered more than 15 Longbow buses from Airbus OneWeb Satellites in January 2022.
Loft Orbital is expanding facilities to be able to produce more satellites.
Loft Orbital can fly customer payloads on any satellite bus using any ground segment network deployed on any cloud.
Loft Orbital builds 'condosats,' which are satellites carrying payloads from multiple customers.
Loft Orbital won a small business research contract for on-orbit edge-computing.
Loft Orbital formed a new subsidiary, Loft Federal, focused on the U.S. national security market.
Loft Orbital announced the creation of Loft Federal on February 10.
Two years ago, Loft Orbital was selected to build a satellite for a U.S. military experiment in low Earth orbit.