Muon Space ranks 20 on the Space 100 with a score of 81; Loft Orbital ranks 30 with 79. Loft Orbital is ahead on commercials. Muon Space is ahead on production and progress. Level on deployment, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Loft Orbital is based in San Francisco, United States, Muon Space in Mountain View, United States. Loft Orbital: Growth. Muon Space: Growth. Loft Orbital is named in 68 signals and Muon Space in 65.
Loft Orbital builds, integrates, launches, and operates satellite platforms for customer missions and constellations, including EarthDaily, Altair, and its 50-satellite AI constellation program.
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Loft Orbital is a US/France space-infrastructure-as-a-service unicorn whose YAM fleet has operated since 2021, with marquee proof including the first visual language model operated in orbit (with NASA JPL), a Microsoft Azure Space partnership, and a virtual-missions line running software on its fleet. Customers span EarthDaily, Wyvern, and a Honeywell/CSA quantum-encryption mission, and it has raised ~$330M (a $170M Series C in January 2025, Tikehau/BlackRock). Revenue is estimated at 10-100m.
68 signals name Loft Orbital.
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Muon Space designs, builds and operates satellites and spacecraft platforms, including Halo, Quickbeam and Condor-Ultra, for customer constellations.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Muon Space is a US satellite maker (founded by ex-SpaceX engineer Jonny Dyer) built on a full-stack Mission Foundry model, with 11 satellites flown and a San Jose plant targeting 500 satellites a year by 2027. It raised a $250M Series C in August 2026 at a $1.5B valuation (Eclipse-led, with Google, Salesforce Ventures, and Woven/Toyota), launched the first three operational FireSat wildfire-detection satellites with Google in July 2026, and debuted a higher-power platform aimed at orbital data centers (pathfinder 2028). Revenue, FireSat economics, and the 500-per-year credibility are open.
65 signals name Muon Space.
58 facts on file.
Muon Space ranks 20 on the Space 100 with a score of 81; Loft Orbital ranks 30 with 79. Loft Orbital is ahead on commercials. Muon Space is ahead on production and progress. Level on deployment, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Loft Orbital is based in San Francisco, United States, Muon Space in Mountain View, United States. Loft Orbital: Growth. Muon Space: Growth. Loft Orbital is named in 68 signals and Muon Space in 65.
Muon Space ranks 20 on the Space 100 with a score of 81; Loft Orbital ranks 30 with 79. Loft Orbital is ahead on commercials. Muon Space is ahead on production and progress. Level on deployment, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Loft Orbital is based in San Francisco, United States, Muon Space in Mountain View, United States. Loft Orbital: Growth. Muon Space: Growth. Loft Orbital is named in 68 signals and Muon Space in 65. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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