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Airbus has been contracted to supply Loft Orbital with more than fifteen satellite platforms derived from the Airbus Arrow platform.
Airbus has been contracted to supply Loft Orbital with more than 15 satellite platforms derived from the Airbus Arrow platform.
Loft Orbital will use the initial procurement from Airbus to deliver services to customers who have ordered based on a few tens of satellites.
Airbus has been contracted by Loft Orbital to modify the Arrow platform to make it suitable for a wider range of longer-lifetime missions and applications.
The Loft Orbital project with support from Airbus relies on French suppliers for more than 60% of the value created in France.
Loft Orbital contracted Airbus to modify the Arrow platform to make it suitable for a wider range of longer-lifetime missions and applications.
Loft Orbital will use the initial procurement from Airbus to deliver services to customers who have ordered services based on a few tens of satellites.
More than 60% of the value of the Loft Orbital project with Airbus is being created in France.
Loft Orbital is currently flying two condosats with buses built by LeoStella and Blue Canyon Technologies.
Loft Orbital plans to use its initial Arrow procurement to deliver services based on a few tens of satellites and to offer larger constellation services to governments and companies worldwide.
Loft Orbital buys satellite buses from multiple vendors and outfits them with payloads flown on behalf of customers.
Loft Orbital ordered more than 15 satellite buses from Airbus in a deal announced on 2022-01-14.
LeoStella was under contract to build a bus for a Loft Orbital satellite that Loft plans to deploy in the first half of 2022.
A separate Loft Orbital satellite slated to launch toward the end of 2022 will use a bus supplied by Blue Canyon Technologies.
Loft Orbital secured $140,000,000 in a funding round completed in October that was led by BlackRock.
The Loft Orbital–Airbus project relies on French suppliers with more than 60% of the value being created in France, according to French minister Bruno Le Maire's position on the project.
Loft Orbital ordered additional buses from LeoStella after securing undisclosed customers looking to fly payloads in 2023.
Loft Orbital expects to receive the Airbus-built satellite buses in 2023.
LeoStella, a joint venture between BlackSky and Thales Alenia Space, built the bus for Loft Orbital’s YAM-3 satellite that launched on the same June rideshare mission as YAM-2.
Loft Orbital is a San Francisco-based company building a small fleet of multipurpose satellites to carry payloads and provide services for customers that do not want to buy or fly their own satellites.