Six-Satellite Launch to Accelerate EarthDaily’s Earth Observation Constellation
Loft Orbital Mission Will Double Its On-Orbit Fleet, Advancing Constellation Deployment Model
A planned single launch of six Earth observation satellites by Loft Orbital this quarter marks a milestone in the full deployment of EarthDaily Analytics’ global imaging constellation, the company says.
“This next launch represents a step-change in both scale and execution for Loft.”
Pierre-Damien Vaujour, Loft Orbital
The six-satellite mission is part of a broader Loft Orbital campaign to deploy more than 20 satellites — including two full constellations — within an 18-month period, effectively doubling the company’s on-orbit fleet. Loft is integrating, launching, and operating a total of ten satellites for EarthDaily’s constellation, which is designed to deliver daily, globally consistent measurement of planetary change.
“This next launch represents a step-change in both scale and execution for Loft,” said Pierre-Damien Vaujour, CEO and co-founder of Loft Orbital. “We’re moving from deploying individual missions to delivering full constellations — a culmination of the strategic investments we’ve made over the years in production scale, platform reliability, flight heritage, and persistent mission operations.”
The EarthDaily Constellation is purpose-built to provide high-frequency, calibrated, analysis-ready data engineered for AI-driven insight and operational decision making across sectors including agriculture, natural resources, and government applications. The system’s first satellite launched in June 2025, and early on-orbit imagery has validated its core design: delivering stable, high-quality measurement across every captured scene.
“This partnership reflects a new model for how constellations are built and scaled,” said Don Osborne, CEO of EarthDaily. “Loft’s ability to handle integration, launch, and operations allows us to stay focused on what matters most — delivering consistent, calibrated, AI-ready data that organizations can trust.”
The collaboration illustrates a growing trend in commercial space toward vertically integrated mission services. Rather than building and operating their own spacecraft, data and analytics providers such as EarthDaily are contracting infrastructure companies to handle end-to-end satellite services — freeing the customer to focus on data quality and delivery to end users.
Loft, founded in 2017, has flown more than 25 missions across a range of payloads and applications. The company maintains facilities in San Francisco; Golden, Colorado; and Toulouse, France. The company says it can move customers from concept to constellation faster than traditional approaches by combining standardized spacecraft with a modular integration architecture.
The San Francisco-based company has been deploying AI-enabled satellite operations for more than ten customer missions and plans to launch what it describes as the world’s first operational constellation dedicated to AI and edge computing on orbit within the next 12 months.
In 2024, Loft and Marlan Space established Orbitworks, described as the Middle East’s first private space-infrastructure company, expanding the company’s international reach.
EarthDaily’s constellation data is targeted at governments and commercial industries requiring broad-area change detection and high-confidence environmental intelligence. The company says the system is engineered not only to image the Earth but to measure it with the consistency required to detect change over time, reduce uncertainty, and support large-scale operational decisions.