Loft Orbital (YAM)

• YAM-3 mission launching in 2020 and the YAM-4 mission launching in 2021.

• YAM-2 — short for Yet Another Mission — will carry five payloads: an Internet of Things telecom payload for Eutelsat; a methane sensor for Orbital Sidekick; a satellite positioning payload for Fugro; an imager for the UAE government; and a blockchain payload for SpaceChain.
• Software Beyond the Stratosphere: Loft Orbital Launches World’s First Commercial Ride-Share Satellites, 2021-07-13.
• Loft Orbital wins Space Force contract for edge computing in space, 2021-05-05.
• Ordered another batch of small satellite buses from LeoStella after securing undisclosed customers looking to fly payloads in 2023.
• Industry first: Loft Orbital signs agreement with Airbus to procure more than fifteen Arrow satellite platforms.
• Ground-breaking ‘Space Infrastructure As a Service’ provider Loft Orbital is partnering with LEO communication specialist Addvalue to offer rapid, secure and simplified access to space, enhanced by always available end-user access. As part of this partnership, Loft Orbital has procured multiple Inter-satellite Data Relay Systems (IDRS™). The first Loft Orbital program to feature IDRS is YAM-6, which will launch in Q4 2023.
• Loft Orbital orders 15 more buses from Airbus OneWeb Satellites, SpaceNews, 2023-04-06.
• Supporting Leonardo DRS's MUSIR (Multiband Uncooled SmallSat Imaging Radiometer) on YAM-5, which launched in January 2023. MUSIR is a demonstration mission for NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration that is testing a new technique for measuring Earth's temperature from space.
• Ball Aerospace successfully powered and launched a prototype payload on January 3, 2023, on Loft Orbital's (Loft) YAM-5 mission aboard a SpaceX rocket. The payload is functioning as planned and is equipped with Ball Aerospace-built Linux-based software, which features containerized applications that can be changed on-orbit, as well as real-time data processing functions.
• Ball taps Loft and Microsoft for SDA NExT program, SpaceNews, 2023-04-11.
• Space Infrastructure as a Service, with Pierre-Damien Vaujour (Loft Orbital), Payload, 2023-06-06.
• LeoStella delivered its third satellite to Loft Orbital Solutions. The spacecraft is the 20th satellite manufactured by LeoStella since its formation in 2019.
• Flying a hyperspectral payload on a future Loft satellite and selling it's capacity to various customers. Our desire is not to be a pure-play EO data provider - we want to provide customers the ability to deploy their own software apps to our satellite infrastructure to process and analyze data at the edge.
• SatDevOps: A software-centric approach to satellite operations at scale. Loft does not have a satellite operations team. Instead, we have a culture that we call “SatDevOps”.
• Loft Orbital is launching ‘virtual missions’ for developers wanting access to space. a new product that takes customer hardware out of the question entirely. In a new initiative the company is calling “virtual missions,” customers will be able to deploy their software apps onto a Loft satellite to leverage on-board sensors and compute nodes, analyze data as it is being collected and run a whole range of use cases. the company started seeing growing demand to deploy AI software in space — specifically, software apps that are connected to cloud infrastructure here on Earth. TechCrunch, 2023-11-29.
• Loft Orbital and SkyServe partner on AI-powered Earth observation application, SpaceNews, 2024-03-19.
• Viasat Selects Loft Orbital for NASA Communications Services Project Real-Time Space Relay Service Demonstration, 2024-05-08.

Loft Orbital deploys space infrastructure as a service, providing rapid, reliable, and simplified access to space.