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Loft Orbital (“Loft”), a global space infrastructure company, today announced two platform procurements that significantly expand its inventory of satellites available off the shelf. Loft has secured 10 additional Longbow satellite platforms from Airbus Defence and Space (“Airbus”) and will also be adding a high-power platform to its inventory, leveraging Apex’s Nova satellite bus.

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.

Loft Orbital (“Loft”), a global space infrastructure company, and EarthDaily Analytics (“EarthDaily”), a premier provider of end-to-end Earth observation solutions, today announced a milestone mission planned for this quarter that will see six EarthDaily satellites deployed on a single launch. This mission marks a major step in the full deployment of EarthDaily’s constellation.

Loft Orbital (Loft) today announced it has signed a contract with the SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (SmartSat CRC) to deploy a wildfire detection application to Loft’s on-orbit satellites. The project will serve as a high-tech demonstration of near real-time, software-based wildfire detection from low Earth orbit.

Loft Orbital (“Loft”), a global space infrastructure company, and Star Catcher Industries (“Star Catcher”), the space energy company, today announced a landmark Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).