YAM 2

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.