Loft Orbital, founded in 2017, is a space infrastructure company based in San Francisco, Golden, and Toulouse. It provides a platform for deploying missions to low Earth orbit, serving clients including commercial space startups, aerospace and defense primes, cloud and AI companies, and government agencies.
The company's technical work spans aerospace engineering, satellite platform development, and software engineering. Its proprietary infrastructure includes the Hub universal payload adapter and Cockpit mission control software. Loft Orbital operates a fleet of YAM series satellites and develops services such as Physical Missions for deploying payloads and On-Orbit AI for running applications directly in space. An AI-enabled constellation, Altair, is planned for the future.
The company raised a $170M Series C round in 2025, bringing total funding to over $310M.
