YAM 2 [Loft Orbital]
Official name YAM-2
Alternative name YAM-2
Cospar ID 2021-059AJ
Norad ID 48911
Launch date 2021-06-30
Launch site AFETR
Launch vehicle Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5)
Country/Organization USA
Type application Technology
Operator Loft Orbital
RCS size MEDIUM
Decay date ON ORBIT
Period (min) 93.95
Inclination (deg) 97.65
Perigee (km) 462
Apogee (km) 474
Eccentricity 0.0128205128205128
Mean motion (revs. per day) 15.3273017562533
Semi-Major axis (km) 6846.135
Raan (deg) 305.0498
Arg of perigee (deg) 113.0707
Shape Box + 2 Pan
Mass (kg) 80
Height (m) 0.5
Width (m) 0.5
Depth (m) 0.5
Span (m^2) 1
Contractors Loft Orbital (payload hub); Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) (bus)
Equipment see above
Propulsion None
Configuration X-SAT Microsat/ESPAsat
Power Deployable fixed solar arrays, solar cells, batteries

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.

Satellite COSPAR Date LS Launch Vehicle Remarks
YAM-2 2021-059AJ 2021-06-30 AFETR Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5) with Starlink v1.5 R1-1, ..., R1-3, Umbra-SAR 2001, YAM 3, ÑuSat 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