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YAM 2 [Loft Orbital]
YAM (Yet Another Mission) is a series of micro satellites owned by Loft Orbital, which host various payloads for different customers.
The satellite consists of a standardized bus provided by Blue Canyon Technologies and Loft Orbital's payload hub, which houses the customer's payloads and provides power, data, mechanical, and thermal interfaces to the payloads and on-board data processing.
YAM 2 was to be launched in early 2020 on an Indian PSLV rocket, but was moved to a Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5). It hosts five payloads:
- Orbital Sidekick: Hyperspectral imager
- UAE Government Agency: Hyperspectral imager
- Eutelsat: ELO 1 (Eutelsat LEO for Objects) Internet-of-Things RF payload, which will collect data from connected objects across the globe equipped with the same omni-directional antennas already used by terrestrial IoT (Internet-of-Things) networks. Data will then be transmitted daily to a ground station located on Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
- Fugro: Technology Demonstration
- SpaceChain: Storage of cryptocurrency encryption keys
Beginning with 2021, quarterly missions are planned.
| Nation: | USA |
|---|---|
| Type / Application: | Payload hosting, technology |
| Operator: | Loft Orbital |
| Contractors: | Loft Orbital (payload hub); Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) (bus) |
| Equipment: | see above |
| Configuration: | X-SAT Microsat/ESPAsat |
| Propulsion: | None |
| Power: | Deployable fixed solar arrays, solar cells, batteries |
| Lifetime: | |
| Mass: | ~80 kg ? |
| Orbit: |
| Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YAM 2 | 2021-059AJ | 30.06.2021 | CC SLC-40 | Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5) | with Starlink v1.5 R1-1, ..., R1-3, Umbra-SAR 2001, YAM 3, �uSat 19, ..., 22, ICEYE X11, X12, X13, X15, TUBIN, Mandrake 2A, 2B, Capella 5, GNOMES 2, LINCS 1, 2, PACE 1, TROPICS 01, D2/AtlaCom 1, EG 3, Centauri 4, Lemur-2 140, ..., 145, SpaceBEE 88, ..., 111, SpaceBEENZ 7, ..., 10, Sherpa-FX 2, Lynk 06, Hawk 3A, 3B, 3C, Astrocast 0201, ..., 0205, Painani 2, Sherpa-LTE 1, Tenzing, Aurora, Arthur 1, Faraday Phoenix, KSF 1A, ..., 1D, Tiger 2, ION-SCV 003, NAPA 2, Spartan, Neptuno, W-Cube, Ghalib, QMR-KWT |