Redwire ranks 28 on the Space 100 with a score of 79; Loft Orbital ranks 30 with 79. Loft Orbital is ahead on firepower. Redwire is ahead on deployment and commercials. Level on production, progress, technology, positioning and leverage. Loft Orbital is based in San Francisco, United States, Redwire in Jacksonville, United States. Loft Orbital: Growth. Redwire: Established. Loft Orbital is named in 68 signals and Redwire in 83.
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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Seeker is Redwire’s space-rated camera and navigation-sensor line, sold to spacecraft and constellation builders for imaging and attitude determination.
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Redwire is a US space-infrastructure maker (NYSE:RDW) whose imaging and navigation technology flew on Artemis II (the first crewed Artemis mission), with FY25 revenue of $335.4M (+10%), FY26 guidance of $450-500M, and a record $498.1M backlog, though it is not yet profitable (a Q1-26 net loss of $85.5M). It is moving up the food chain as one of 14 vendors on the $1.8B Andromeda IDIQ and prime on DARPA's Otter VLEO spacecraft, while adding defense recurring orders through its Edge Autonomy UAS line. Its stock fell ~27% over the year on dilution and burn fears despite growth, embodying the sector's growth-versus-profitability tension.
83 signals name Redwire.
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Redwire ranks 28 on the Space 100 with a score of 79; Loft Orbital ranks 30 with 79. Loft Orbital is ahead on firepower. Redwire is ahead on deployment and commercials. Level on production, progress, technology, positioning and leverage. Loft Orbital is based in San Francisco, United States, Redwire in Jacksonville, United States. Loft Orbital: Growth. Redwire: Established. Loft Orbital is named in 68 signals and Redwire in 83.
Redwire ranks 28 on the Space 100 with a score of 79; Loft Orbital ranks 30 with 79. Loft Orbital is ahead on firepower. Redwire is ahead on deployment and commercials. Level on production, progress, technology, positioning and leverage. Loft Orbital is based in San Francisco, United States, Redwire in Jacksonville, United States. Loft Orbital: Growth. Redwire: Established. Loft Orbital is named in 68 signals and Redwire in 83. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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