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LeoStella won business from other companies such as Loft Orbital and sought to enter defense markets.
A Loft Orbital mission scheduled to launch in the fall of 2025 would demonstrate high-capacity Ka-band relay links in orbit.
Loft Orbital is partnering with SkyServe to leverage Earth observation and edge computing capabilities on a newly launched satellite.
Loft Orbital has an inventory of more than 30 pre-ordered satellite buses.
Loft Orbital previously ordered satellites from LeoStella, Raytheon, and another company that Loft declined to disclose.
Loft Orbital is expanding facilities to be able to produce more satellites.
Loft Orbital raised $140,000,000 in late 2021 to support its plans.
Loft Orbital is actively recruiting workers for Loft Federal, which is based in Golden, Colorado.
Loft Orbital secured $140,000,000 in a funding round completed in October that was led by BlackRock.
LeoStella was under contract to build a bus for a Loft Orbital satellite that Loft plans to deploy in the first half of 2022.
LeoStella built the bus for Loft Orbital’s YAM-5 satellite, which plans to launch in the second quarter of 2022.
Loft Orbital ordered multiple LEO-100 buses from LeoStella in a 2022-01-06 announcement following a funding round in which Loft Orbital raised $140,000,000 led by BlackRock.
Loft Orbital contracted LeoStella’s LEO-100 satellite bus for its YAM-5 mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2022.
Hydrosat expects to launch its first sensor aboard a SpaceX rocket in 2022-10-01 with Loft Orbital serving as the satellite bus provider and integration partner.
Loft Orbital is executing several YAM missions scheduled to launch throughout the next 24 months.
Hydrosat’s inaugural mission, VanZyl-1, is scheduled to be mounted on a Loft Orbital satellite and launched in early 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Under the SBIR Phase II contract, Loft Orbital will develop a next-generation onboard processor to support customer and third-party massless payloads onboard spacecraft.
Loft Orbital has quarterly missions planned to start in 2022.
VanZyl-1 is scheduled to launch with Loft Orbital in early 2022.
Loft Orbital planned to launch its first satellite, Yet Another Mission (YAM) 2, in mid-2020 but now expects that mission to launch in early 2021.