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Loft Orbital planned to launch its first satellite, YAM-2, on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in mid-2020 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the pandemic created launch delays.
Loft Orbital raised $13,000,000 to continue development of a constellation of small satellites purpose-built to carry a mix of customer payloads.
Loft Orbital’s first satellite, YAM-2, is scheduled to launch by mid-2020 on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle arranged through Spaceflight.
YAM-2, YAM-3, and YAM-4 will be built on individually ordered satellite buses, and Loft Orbital plans to place a batch order by April for 10 to 20 satellite platforms from a single vendor.
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.
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.
Loft Orbital raised $3,200,000 in 2017.
Loft Orbital raised $3,200,000 in 2019 to build and operate a constellation of satellites for customers.
Loft Orbital raised $3,200,000 in 2019 to run a satellite fleet for customers who want to put payloads in space without operating the satellites themselves.