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YAM-5
Commercial Multi-Payload Hosting Satellite · Loft Orbital
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YAM-5, 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 without building an entire satellite themselves.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 275–283 mi (443–456 km)
- Inclination
- 97.3°
- One orbit
- 93.4 minutes15.4 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 55076
- Int’l designator
- 2023-001BV
- Launched
- 2023
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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