ESA supports Loft Orbital’s YAM-8 launch through upgraded platform
17 Mar 2025
Loft Orbital, with a European Space Agency (ESA)-funded upgraded Airbus Arrow 150 platform on board, has successfully launched its Longbow YAM-8 satellite on Friday 14 March at 23:43 PT (Saturday 15 March 07:43 CET) on a Transporter-13, taking place at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States. The upgrades to the platform were supported under an ESA Pioneer Partnership Project: the In Orbit Demonstrator by Airbus (IODA).
