We integrate, test, deploy and operate your payload.
Fly hardware on an upcoming satellite.
Fly a full satellite for your mission.
Fly a constellation with constant coverage and high revisit rates.
Your mission requirements and necessary resources are captured in a standardized intake form. We collaborate closely with you to design your mission and establish the Mission Service Level Agreement (SLA) and schedule.
The Hub is a modular payload adapter that acts as the brain of the spacecraft; it communicates between your payload and the spacecraft bus to execute taskings and transmit your data back to Earth.
During mission development, we send you a Hubkit to validate your payload’s hardware and software interfaces to the Hub and ensure seamless payload integration to the satellite. Once compatibility configuration is complete, the payload is sent to us for integration.
We leverage off-the-shelf buses and Hubs from our inventory to reduce lead times.
We integrate your payload to the satellite platform and conduct environmental and functional tests to ensure readiness for launch.
Loft handles the entire launch integration campaign. We prebook launch capacity years in advance to assure a ride to space.
After launch, we commission and operate the satellite, to let you task your payload using Cockpit, our mission operations software.
MURI, which was launched into low-Earth orbit in January 2023, is not NASA’s first space-based infrared radiometer, but it is one of NASA’s smallest. MURI flies through space at roughly seven kilometers per second as a hosted payload on Loft Orbital’s YAM5 platform.