Loft Orbital

Loft Orbital is a French-American space infrastructure company founded in 2017, specializing in Space Infrastructure as a Service. The company enables customers to deploy payloads or software in orbit without the need to build their own spacecraft. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional facilities in Toulouse, France, and Boulder, Colorado, Loft Orbital employs over 130–300 people globally. The company offers a modular, turnkey space platform that integrates third-party satellite hardware and provides a universal payload interface. Its services include delivering and operating physical payloads on proven satellite buses, offering on-orbit compute and communications capacity for software applications, and managing the full mission lifecycle. Loft Orbital's innovative "condosat" model allows multiple customers to share satellite platforms, significantly reducing costs and time-to-orbit. The company has successfully completed more than 25 missions, demonstrating reliable performance for various payloads. In 2024, Loft Orbital raised $170 million in Series C funding to enhance its operations and increase launch frequency.