Loft Orbital is a pioneering company in the space sector, offering infrastructure as a service to simplify access to space. They specialize in deploying satellites quickly and reliably, using a standardized satellite bus for all missions to ensure consistency and reduce risk. Their services cater to a variety of industries by providing flexible and turnkey solutions for satellite operations.
Founded: 2017
| Pierre-Damien Vaujour Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member |
| Alexander Greenberg Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer, & Board Member |
| Pieter Duijn Chief Technology Officer |
| Lucas Bremond Chief Architect & Satellite Operations |
| Henry Marshall Vice President, Finance |
The standard approach to satellite imagery is to snap huge batches of pictures and beam them back to Earth, where they can be sifted through by human operators and the best available algorithms.
Loft Orbital (“Loft”), a global space infrastructure company, today announced an agreement with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to host and fly demonstrations of JPL artificial intelligence (AI) software on Loft’s AI-enabled space infrastructure. The demonstrations, part of the Federated Autonomous MEasurement (FAME) project funded by NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO), will advance on-orbit AI capabilities for Earth science remote sensing and autonomous ground processing.
San Francisco-based Loft Orbital, which builds standardized satellite platforms for a variety of customers, is offering up a different vision of AI in space, at least in the near term. Later this year, it plans to launch a 10-satellite constellation focused on doing AI in space for real-world applications like environmental monitoring or law enforcement.
Loft Orbital has raised $170 million to expand manufacturing facilities and streamline operations with more artificial intelligence.