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Loft Orbital

operating 201–500 employees

Operates a satellite-as-a-service platform that integrates, deploys, and operates customer payloads and AI applications on standardized LEO spacecraft.

About

Loft Orbital operates a satellite-as-a-service platform that enables organizations to deploy and manage payloads in low Earth orbit without building or operating dedicated spacecraft. The company uses its Hub universal payload adapter to provide standardized power, data, and mechanical interfaces between customer sensors and commodity satellite buses sourced from partners including Airbus OneWeb Satellites and LeoStella. Mission operations are handled through Cockpit, a web-based software platform that allows customers to task sensors and monitor payloads via UI or API.

Service offerings span three categories: Physical Missions for deploying hardware payloads on dedicated, rideshare, or constellation configurations; On-Orbit AI for running software and AI applications on edge computing resources aboard Loft satellites; and the Altair constellation, a planned 10-satellite AI-enabled multi-sensor system for near-real-time change monitoring. Loft Federal, a FOCI-mitigated subsidiary, serves US national security customers. Through Orbitworks, a joint venture with Marlan Space, the company operates a satellite manufacturing facility in Abu Dhabi. Integration and test facilities are maintained in Golden, Colorado and Toulouse, France, with headquarters in San Francisco.

Products & Services

Planned 10-satellite AI-enabled multi-sensor constellation for near-real-time change monitoring and on-orbit AI applications.
Web-based mission control software for payload tasking, monitoring, and fleet management via UI or API.
Universal payload adapter providing standardized power, data, and mechanical interfaces between customer payloads and satellite buses.
Standardized off-the-shelf satellite platform for dedicated, rideshare, and constellation missions with pre-booked launch capacity.
End-to-end virtual mission platform for developing, testing, and deploying software applications onto Loft satellites with containerized cloud-based environments.

Locations

San Francisco, CA
Golden, CO
Toulouse, FRA

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Overview

Founded 2017
HQ San Francisco, California, USA
Type Private Company

Leadership

Pierre-Damien Vaujour
Co-Founder & CEO
Alex Greenberg
Co-Founder & COO
Pieter van Duijn
CTO
Ilan Tordjaman
Chief Financial Officer
Antoine de Chassy
Co-Founder

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