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Loft Orbital

US
commercialFounded 2017
San Francisco, California, United States
www.loftorbital.com
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Loft Orbital previously ordered satellites from LeoStella, Raytheon, and another company that Loft declined to disclose.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalTechnical ProductApr 6, 2023Loft Orbital orders 15 more buses from Airbus OneWeb Satellites

Loft Orbital can fly customer payloads on any satellite bus using any ground segment network deployed on any cloud.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalTechnical ProductApr 6, 2023Loft Orbital orders 15 more buses from Airbus OneWeb Satellites

Loft Orbital calls the satellite buses it ordered from Airbus OneWeb Satellites Longbow.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalOrg RelationshipApr 6, 2023Loft Orbital orders 15 more buses from Airbus OneWeb Satellites

Loft Orbital has a contract with EarthDaily Analytics from January 2022 to build and operate a 10-satellite Earth observation constellation.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalOrg RelationshipApr 6, 2023Loft Orbital orders 15 more buses from Airbus OneWeb Satellites

Loft Orbital will continue to work with multiple satellite bus suppliers rather than consolidate orders with a single supplier.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalTechnical ProductApr 6, 2023Loft Orbital orders 15 more buses from Airbus OneWeb Satellites

Loft Orbital builds 'condosats,' which are satellites carrying payloads from multiple customers.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalNarrative GeneralFeb 10, 2023Loft Orbital creates new subsidiary for government and defense

Loft Orbital formed a new subsidiary, Loft Federal, focused on the U.S. national security market.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalNarrative GeneralFeb 10, 2023Loft Orbital creates new subsidiary for government and defense

Loft Orbital is actively recruiting workers for Loft Federal, which is based in Golden, Colorado.

Mentioned as: Loft FederalTechnical ProductFeb 10, 2023Loft Orbital creates new subsidiary for government and defense

Loft Orbital won a small business research contract for on-orbit edge-computing.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalTechnical ProductFeb 10, 2023Loft Orbital creates new subsidiary for government and defense

Loft Orbital is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has operations in Toulouse, France.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalNarrative GeneralFeb 10, 2023Loft Orbital creates new subsidiary for government and defense

Two years ago, Loft Orbital was selected to build a satellite for a U.S. military experiment in low Earth orbit.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalNarrative GeneralFeb 10, 2023Loft Orbital creates new subsidiary for government and defense

Loft Orbital announced the creation of Loft Federal on February 10.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalNarrative GeneralFeb 10, 2023Loft Orbital creates new subsidiary for government and defense

John Eterno was named general manager of Loft Federal.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalNarrative GeneralFeb 10, 2023Loft Orbital creates new subsidiary for government and defense

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.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalOrg RelationshipDec 8, 2022ANYWAVES garners million€s in their initial financing round

Azure Orbital created an intelligent hosting platform software that runs on spacecraft operated by Ball Aerospace, Loft Orbital, Thales Alenia Space, and Xplore.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalOrg RelationshipNov 17, 2022Azure Orbital Space unveils software tools for space applications

Loft Orbital has contracted more than 20 satellites to be flown by 2025.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalOrg RelationshipOct 25, 2022Beyond Gravity to supply power electronics for Loft Orbital’s satellites

Loft Orbital procures qualified commodity satellite buses in advance to deliver payloads to orbit in months rather than years.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalTechnical ProductOct 25, 2022Beyond Gravity to supply power electronics for Loft Orbital’s satellites

Beyond Gravity will supply Power Control & Distribution Unit (PCDU) equipment for Loft Orbital’s Longbow spacecraft based on the Airbus Arrow platform.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalTechnical ProductOct 25, 2022Beyond Gravity to supply power electronics for Loft Orbital’s satellites

Beyond Gravity has been selected to supply equipment for Loft Orbital’s Longbow spacecraft based on the Airbus Arrow platform.

Mentioned as: loft orbitalTechnical ProductOct 18, 2022Beyond Gravity to Supply Power Control and Distribution Unit (PCDU) for Loft Orbital’s satellites

Loft Orbital will provide the EarthDaily satellites based on the OneWeb platform.

Mentioned as: Loft OrbitalTechnical ProductSep 16, 2022EarthDaily constellation built for change-detection analysis
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