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Loft Orbital hosts customer payloads on shared satellites as an infrastructure-as-a-service provider and raised $140 million in a 2025 round led by BlackRock.
ACTIVESpace infrastructure company that flies customer payloads on its satellites and lets customers deploy software-only missions to them. Raised a $170M Series C in January 2025, co-led by Tikehau Capital and Axial Partners.
Loft Orbital provides satellite infrastructure-as-a-service, enabling customers to fly their payloads on shared satellite platforms. This approach dramatically reduces cost and time to orbit for customers. In 2025, the company raised $140M in a BlackRock-led funding round to scale operations.
Rank 23 of 93 ranked companies
5 of 8 inputs measured · High confidence · 100% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Headcount, Reported revenue
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
A pillar score averages the company’s percentiles among the tracked companies with a value: relative standing, not a grade. Inputs measured 2026-10-14 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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Sources: Founded, Headquarters, CEO, Legal name
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4 private rounds on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
End-to-end service to fly a customer payload on a shared satellite, from integration through operations and data delivery.
Loft Orbital YAM missions: shared satellites hosting multiple customer payloads, built on standardized buses (now Longbow, derived from the Airbus Arrow 150, payloads up to 85 kg).
Stage, milestones, announced next steps and slips, funding and filings, every fact sourced:
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Compiled Oct 14, 2026 from 12 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Space federal awards
4 awards, $2.2M obligated
Awards with activity since Oct 1, 2018, as searched Sep 24, 2026. Awarded Mar 15, 2024 to Aug 4, 2026; most from NASA (3 awards)
Counts awards the government's own product code or programme title marks as space work, or the space research industry code; the satellite-telecoms industry code counts only together with a space agency, office or a space word in the award's own description. Obligated dollars, not ceilings; umbrella contracts (IDVs) are left out because their orders are counted one by one. Amounts as USAspending reported them on Sep 24, 2026.
Source: USAspending.gov recipient profile (all awards, not only space)
Latest award Aug 4, 2026
Latest space award
$389K from NASA
DEVELOP T0435 FLEET FOR THE ATMOSPHERE LINKING COMMERCIAL OBSERVATIONS W/NASA(FALCON)-LIDAR MISSION CONCEPTS.
Source: USAspending.gov award record
Awarded Aug 4, 2026
Form D notices
2 offerings reported on Form D
Latest filed Nov 8, 2021; first sale Dec 7, 2021
Each offering counts once: a later amendment (Form D/A) replaces its original. Form D names no round label and no investors. Filings for a merger or SPAC deal are left out.
Latest sourced round
Series C: $170.0M
Co-led by Tikehau Capital and Axial Partners
Source: SpaceNews
Announced Jan 14, 2025
Sourced rounds on record
4 rounds, $324.6M disclosed
Every round has a disclosed amount
Published rounds with a source link only, on the same rules as the funding tracker. Each round links the source that states its figure; amounts in other currencies are converted to dollars at the rate shown on the funding tracker.
Open roles
62 open roles
90 days ago: before our daily count began (Aug 13, 2026)
Roles on the company's own jobs board, read by our daily sync. Listings posted or paid for on SpaceNexus are not counted. Earlier daily counts include every listed role.
Source: Company jobs board (Lever)
Counted Oct 14, 2026
Satellites owned or operated
14 in orbit of 15 launched
Latest: EDC-08
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as owner or operator. "In orbit" is GCAT status O. Counted under GCAT organisation code LOFT. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
3 space awards, $2.2M obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Aug 4, 2026
Department of Defense
1 space award, $5K obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Jun 9, 2025
Airbus Defense and Space (F) Toulouse
Built 10 of its satellites (latest EDC-08)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Jul 7, 2026
Satellite data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0.
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 14). Loft Orbital: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/loft-orbital
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Loft Orbital: Company dossier." Data as of October 14, 2026. Accessed October 14, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/loft-orbital.
BibTeX
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title = {{Loft Orbital}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/loft-orbital}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/loft-orbital},
urldate = {2026-10-14},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-14; each fact links its primary source}
}Built 3 of its satellites (latest YAM-7)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Aug 16, 2024
Raytheon Intelligence and Space/Blue Canyon
Built 2 of its satellites (latest YAM-2)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Jun 30, 2021
Axial Partners
Co-led Series C (Jan 14, 2025)
SpaceNews, Jan 14, 2025
Took part in Series C (Jan 14, 2025)
SpaceNews, Jan 14, 2025
Took part in Series C (Jan 14, 2025)
SpaceNews, Jan 14, 2025
Starburst VC
Took part in Series C (Jan 14, 2025)
SpaceNews, Jan 14, 2025
Supernova
Took part in Series C (Jan 14, 2025)
SpaceNews, Jan 14, 2025
Took part in Series C (Jan 14, 2025)
SpaceNews, Jan 14, 2025
Tikehau Capital
Co-led Series C (Jan 14, 2025)
SpaceNews, Jan 14, 2025
Tribeca Venture Partners
Took part in Series C (Jan 14, 2025)
SpaceNews, Jan 14, 2025