# Loft Orbital

> Loft Orbital is a San Francisco-based space infrastructure company that flies customer payloads on standardized satellites - selling space access the way AWS sells compute. Customers skip the spacecraft-building part and ship hardware, software, or on-demand data tasks to orbit on Loft's YAM satellites.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Pierre-Damien Vaujour (Co-founder & CEO), Alex Greenberg (Co-founder & COO), Antoine de Chassy (Co-founder & President)
- **Team size:** ~330
- **Products:** YAM satellites (Yet Another Mission), Condosat / Shared Missions, Dedicated Missions, Virtual Missions, Cockpit
- **Notable:** Raised $343M total funding across Seed through Series C, Reached unicorn valuation (~$1B) in January 2025, Logged over $500M in contract bookings by early 2025

## Products & services

- **YAM satellites (Yet Another Mission)** — Standardized 100kg-class satellite buses with a universal payload hub for power, data, mechanical, and thermal interfaces.
- **Condosat / Shared Missions** — Multi-tenant satellites where customers buy a slot rather than a whole spacecraft.
- **Dedicated Missions** — End-to-end builds where Loft handles integration, launch, and operations for a single customer.
- **Virtual Missions** — Software-defined missions where customers deploy apps to Loft's in-orbit compute - including AI workloads on GPUs.
- **Cockpit** — Loft's mission operations software platform that abstracts spacecraft complexity from customers.

## Achievements

- Raised $343M total funding across Seed through Series C
- Reached unicorn valuation (~$1B) in January 2025
- Logged over $500M in contract bookings by early 2025
- Launched YAM-2, YAM-3, YAM-5, YAM-6, and YAM-9 missions
- First commercial operator to enable third-party 'virtual missions' on-orbit
- Selected by U.S. Space Force, NASA, and ESA for mission hosting

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Closed $170M Series C led by Tikehau Capital and Axial Partners; reached unicorn status.
- **2025-06** — Safran delivered next-generation imagers for upcoming Loft missions.
- **2024-05** — Brand refresh - new logotype and 'Space Made Simple' positioning.
- **2024** — YAM-6 launched as Loft's first virtual mission-enabled satellite.
- **2024** — YAM-9 rideshare launched with multiple customer payloads including Wyvern's hyperspectral camera.

## Links

- Website: https://loftorbital.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/loft-orbital
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/loftorbital
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn1spY7XAP5mZOGT2XZNpbQ
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loftorbital/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/loftorbital/

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Last updated: 2026-05-28