Category: Technology

HubKit: Bench-tested Today, Flight-ready Tomorrow

HubKit turns payload integration from guesswork into a simple, hands-on experience. Loft’s mission integration testbed allows customers to debug software against real interfaces long before satellite integration. Engineers stay in control, timelines stay predictable, and “will it work” becomes “it’s already proven.” What is HubKit? HubKit is Loft’s flight representative mission integration testbed for customers [...]

CatGPT: Our First Step Toward a Global Mesh Network

At Loft, we design our space infrastructure to define, develop, and deploy missions in a simple, fast, and reliable manner. ‘Houston, we have a problem’ Over the past few years, we’ve launched and operated satellites at a speed previously unseen in the space industry. Since 2017, we’ve accelerated our integration and launch process from [...]

YAM-6: The Rise of the Virtual Mission

By Bethany Pulcini-Baldwin, Virtual Missions Product Lead For decades, satellites have been a valuable resource for understanding events on Earth in slow motion, from assessing damage from extreme weather, to forecasting crop outputs, to predicting economic activity from the number of ships docked in a port. At Loft, we believe that satellites can do more. [...]

EarthDaily and Loft – Capturing Constant Change from Space

SatDevOps: A software-centric approach to satellite operations at scale

By Brunston Poon, Satellite Ground Software Engineer and the Ground Products team Even though we have satellites flying in space today, Loft does not have a satellite operations team. Instead, we have a culture that we call “SatDevOps”. If you recognize the DevOps part of that word, you’re onto something! Our approach to scaling our [...]

NASA’s MURI instrument pioneers new ways to measure Earth’s surface temperature – NASA

Simplification is key to space industry growth