Loft and SmartSat CRC Partner to Demonstrate Wildfire Detection Application Onboard AI-enabled Satellite
Loft today announced it has signed a contract with the SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (SmartSat CRC) to deploy a wildfire detection application to Loft’s on-orbit satellites. The project will serve as a high-tech demonstration of near real-time, software-based wildfire detection from low Earth orbit. This mission is designed to validate the software’s functionality and performance […]
Loft Launches Dedicated AI for Space Business Unit to Develop On-Orbit AI Infrastructure
Today, Loft announced the formation of a new AI for Space business unit within the company to focus on building scalable, reliable AI-enabled space infrastructure to support agentic and AI-at-the-edge applications. This investment reflects Loft’s long-term commitment to enabling governments and commercial partners to access and deploy algorithms directly on orbit, transforming how insights are […]
Loft’s YAM-9 to Demonstrate New AI Compute Architecture in Space
For years, the conversation around AI in space has centered on what’s possible. Concepts and research papers have explored the idea of turning satellites into compute platforms capable of interpreting sensor data directly on orbit. What has been missing is the transition from theoretical architectures to flying the processors that can make this possible. Launched […]
YAM-9: Advancing Missions, Compute, and Innovation in Orbit
November 28, 2025 Update: YAM-9 was deployed via SpaceX’s Transporter-15 mission on November 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM PT. Loft has successfully made contact with the satellite and commissioning is underway. All systems appear nominal. It’s yet another launch for “Yet Another Mission.” Loft Orbital’s YAM-9 satellite is fully integrated and ready to […]
Inside Loft Orbital: Building smarter satellites with AI
By, Lucas Bremond—Chief Software Architect at Loft Orbital At Loft, our mission is to make space simple. We’re a software-centric aerospace company, which means we apply modern software principles across everything we build—from our ground systems to our flight software. And AI isn’t something we’ve added on after the fact—it’s built into how we […]
Loft Orbital is launching ‘virtual missions’ for developers wanting access to space
YAM-6: The Rise of the Virtual Mission
By Bethany Pulcini-Baldwin, Virtual Missions Product Lead For decades, satellites have been a valuable resource for understanding events on Earth in slow motion, from assessing damage from extreme weather, to forecasting crop outputs, to predicting economic activity from the number of ships docked in a port. At Loft, we believe that satellites can do more. […]
Empowering space development off the planet with Azure
Scientific Systems Company, Inc (SSCI) Conducts Initial Demonstrations of AI-Enabled Edge-Based Processing On-Orbit for the Space Development Agency
