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YAM-3
Commercial Multi-Payload Hosting Satellite · Loft Orbital
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YAM-3, one of Loft Orbital's flexible satellite platforms — a spacecraft designed to host multiple unrelated customer payloads on a single shared bus, essentially renting out orbital real estate to companies who need a sensor in space but don't want to build and launch an entire satellite themselves.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 258–263 mi (416–423 km)
- Inclination
- 97.7°
- One orbit
- 92.8 minutes15.5 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 48915
- Int’l designator
- 2021-059AN
- Launched
- 2021
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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