{"title":"Loft Orbital vs OHB: Platforms compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/loft-orbital-vs-ohb","comparison":"Loft Orbital ranks 30 on the Space 100 with a score of 79; OHB ranks 32 with 78. Loft Orbital is ahead on technology. OHB is ahead on production and commercials. Level on deployment, progress, positioning, firepower and leverage. Loft Orbital is based in San Francisco, United States, OHB in Bremen, Germany. Loft Orbital: Growth. OHB: Public. Loft Orbital is named in 68 signals and OHB in 54.","companies":[{"name":"Loft Orbital","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/loft-orbital","city":"San Francisco","country":"United States","stage":"Growth","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"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.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":30,"score":79,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":9,"firepower":8,"commercial":7,"deployment":8,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"Loft Orbital builds, integrates, launches, and operates satellite platforms for customer missions and constellations, including EarthDaily, Altair, and its 50-satellite AI constellation program.","segment":"Platforms","layer":"Satellites & spacecraft"},"signals_total":68,"facts_total":52},{"name":"OHB","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/ohb","city":"Bremen","country":"Germany","stage":"Public","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"OHB is Europe's listed pure-play space prime (ETR:OHB, family-led, 25 years public) at full demand, with H1-26 operating performance of EUR 628M (double-digit growth), adjusted EBITDA of EUR 60M (+30%), FY26 guidance of ~EUR 1.4B, and a record EUR 3,354M backlog. Its EPS-Sterna microsatellite constellation (EUR 248M) is OHB Sweden's largest-ever order, its MT Aerospace unit is the largest German Ariane supplier, and it sees a ~EUR 20B pipeline, though Q2 order intake was lumpy and Access-to-Space margins are soft on ramp costs. Its subsidiary RFA's first flight was delayed again; its stock rose 321% over the year to a ~$6.1B market cap.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":32,"score":78,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":9,"firepower":8,"commercial":10,"deployment":8,"production":8,"technology":6},"why":"OHB develops, builds and integrates satellite platforms for institutional and commercial customers, including IRIS2 platforms, MTG weather satellites and Galileo hardware.","segment":"Platforms","layer":"Satellites & spacecraft"},"signals_total":54,"facts_total":72}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}