A space infrastructure-as-a-service company that flies customer payloads and software missions on its own pre-built, standardized satellites, handling integration, launch, and operations so customers don't need to build or manage their own spacecraft.
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'Condosat' shared-payload hosting model; reported >$500M of lifetime bookings on only $160M of capital raised before the Series C. Building for the Space Development Agency and EarthDaily, among others. Competitive dynamics center on rival hosted-payload/rideshare players (D-Orbit, Spaceflight Inc.) and the broader national-security satellite-constellation buildout.
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As of 2026-09-13 · live via lever's public job board · ≈16.5% of the 316–361 estimated team
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See all open roles at Loft Orbital →Loft Orbital buys standardized satellite buses from other manufacturers, fits them with its Payload Hub so several customer payloads share one bus, and operates them through its Cockpit software. Customers buy space on a satellite rather than a satellite. It now also flies virtual missions, where customers deploy software to Loft-owned hardware, and is procuring more buses.
| Date | Type | What |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2026 | Milestone | Loft said it had procured 32 Longbows since 2022 and had contracted with Apex for up to ten Nova buses |
| Jul 7, 2026 | Milestone | EarthDaily reported eight of its ten Loft-operated satellites in orbit after a launch on this date |
| Nov 2025 | Milestone | YAM-9 launched |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Milestone | YAM-8 launched on Transporter-13, the first Longbow, a platform adapted from the Airbus Arrow 150 bus used for OneWeb |
| Aug 26, 2024 | Milestone | Loft and Abu Dhabi's Marlan Space announced Orbitworks, a joint venture majority-owned by Marlan, to produce satellites in the UAE |
| Aug 2024 | Milestone | YAM-7 launched with a single dedicated payload, Hydrosat's VanZyl-1 thermal infrared imager |
| Mar 2024 | Milestone | YAM-6 launched on Transporter-10 as a virtual-mission satellite: customers deploy software to Loft-owned imagers, radios and processors |
| 2024 | Paper | Loft Orbital's Approach to Rapid System Verification and Test |
| Dec 12, 2023 | Patent filed | US 2025/0191103 A1 Tiered multi-payload mission simulation |
| Feb 10, 2023 | Milestone | Loft Federal announced, a wholly owned US subsidiary for national-security work based in Golden, Colorado |
| 2023 | Paper | Lessons Learned from Automating Heterogeneous Spacecraft Systems |
| Jan 14, 2022 | Milestone | Airbus announced a contract to supply more than fifteen Arrow-derived platforms |
| 2022 | Paper | Future-Proof Mission Control Systems: Leveraging Agnostic Design for Autonomous and Event-Driven Satellite Operations |
| Jun 30, 2021 | Milestone | YAM-2 and YAM-3 launched on SpaceX Transporter-2 carrying about ten payloads, including the Space Development Agency's POET demonstration |
| Aug 1, 2019 | Patent filed | US 11,651,466 Systems and methods for describing, simulating and optimizing spaceborne systems and missions |
| Aug 1, 2019 | Patent filed | US 12,026,796 Systems and methods for describing, simulating and optimizing spaceborne systems and missions |
| Aug 1, 2019 | Patent filed | US 12,307,543 Systems and methods for describing, simulating and optimizing spaceborne systems and missions |
| Jul 31, 2018 | Milestone | Priority date of the earliest patent family, on fulfilling service requests from multiple parties with shared spacecraft |
| Jul 31, 2018 | Patent filed | US 12,434,861 System and method for providing spacecraft-based services |
| 2017 | Milestone | Loft Orbital founded by Pierre-Damien Vaujour, Alex Greenberg and Antoine de Chassy, with headquarters in San Francisco and Toulouse |
Patents. The earliest family concerns fulfilling service requests from multiple parties with shared spacecraft, and another covers software that generates, simulates and validates candidate spacecraft configurations; Google Patents lists the French entity, Loft Orbital Technologies S.A.S., as current assignee of all five filings.
No acquisitions on record.
Loft Orbital was founded in 2017 by Pierre-Damien Vaujour, Alex Greenberg and Antoine de Chassy, with headquarters in San Francisco and Toulouse. Rather than build satellites, it buys standardized buses from other manufacturers, fits them with its own payload interface unit, the Payload Hub, which lets several customer payloads share one bus, and operates the spacecraft through its mission-control software, Cockpit. Customers buy space on a satellite rather than a satellite. The earliest patent family, US 12,434,861 (priority July 31, 2018, granted October 7, 2025), concerns fulfilling service requests from multiple parties with shared spacecraft; US 11,651,466 (priority August 1, 2019, granted May 16, 2023) and two continuations cover software that generates, simulates and validates candidate spacecraft configurations, including rideshare missions.
Flight record. YAM-2 (Blue Canyon Technologies bus) and YAM-3 (LeoStella bus) launched on SpaceX Transporter-2 on June 30, 2021 carrying about ten payloads, among them Eutelsat internet-of-things payloads, a UAE Space Agency payload and, on YAM-3, the Space Development Agency's POET software demonstration, which builds on DARPA's Pit Boss. YAM-5 launched in January 2023. YAM-6 launched on Transporter-10 in March 2024 as what Loft calls a virtual-mission satellite: customers deploy software to Loft-owned imagers, radios and processors instead of flying hardware. YAM-7 launched in August 2024 with a single dedicated payload, Hydrosat's VanZyl-1 thermal infrared imager. YAM-8, launched March 14, 2025 Pacific time on Transporter-13, was the first Longbow, a platform adapted from the Airbus Arrow 150 bus used for OneWeb; ESA's GSTP program and CNES co-funded the adaptation. YAM-9 followed in November 2025. Loft is integrating, launching and operating ten satellites for EarthDaily Analytics; EarthDaily reported eight in orbit after a launch on July 7, 2026.
Supply and structure. Airbus announced on January 14, 2022 a contract to supply more than fifteen Arrow-derived platforms. Loft said on July 15, 2026 that it had procured 32 Longbows since 2022, including ten more that day, and had contracted with Apex for up to ten Nova buses (a 600 kg platform with 1 kW orbit-average power and up to 300 kg of payload); Payload reported the order as one firm bus with options for nine, with the first due by October 2026. Loft Federal, a wholly owned US subsidiary for national-security work based in Golden, Colorado, was announced February 10, 2023. On August 26, 2024 Loft and Abu Dhabi's Marlan Space announced Orbitworks, a joint venture majority-owned by Marlan with an initial investment of over $100 million, to produce satellites in the UAE.
Loft engineers have published on their operations and test methods at the International Astronautical Congress (2022), SpaceOps (2023) and the Small Satellite Conference (2024). Google Patents lists Loft Orbital Technologies S.A.S., the French entity, as current assignee of all five listed filings; the records also show security interests granted by the US entity, Loft Orbital Solutions Inc., to TriplePoint Capital (November 2023, released September 2025) and First-Citizens Bank & Trust (September 2025). No acquisitions were found.
Profile as of Sep 19, 2026.
| Round | Date | Valuation | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | 2025-01-13 | $954M+74% | Tikehau Capital and Axial Partners (co-led) |
| Series B | 2021-12-07 | $550M+1179% | BlackRock |
| Series A | 2019-11-13 | $43M+233% | Foundation Capital (moderate confidence -- primary source, a co-founder's own account, could not be fetched directly) |
| Seed | 2017-09-13 | $13M | Uncork Capital, formerly SoftTech VC (moderate confidence -- primary-source access was rate-limited/blocked during this research) |
No upcoming rounds currently reported.
| Status | S-1 Not Filed |
|---|---|
| Notes | Too early-stage for concrete signals. The only IPO-adjacent commentary is investor sentiment relayed by Sifted (Jan 2025), not a company statement. |
| Source | Sifted, Jan 2025 (investor sentiment, not company guidance) |
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