Wyvern expands Dragonette constellation capacity with Loft’s Space infrastructure – SatNews

Wyvern is expanding their Dragonette constellation by using Loft’s network of satellites for the collection of large volumes of hyperspectral data.

Building on a 2023 partnership, Wyvern is expanding their Dragonette constellation, leveraging Loft’s space infrastructure as a service model to rapidly and reliably enhance its constellation’s capacity to meet the growing needs of hyperspectral customers. 

By expanding the Dragonette constellation, Wyvern can serve a broader range of customers and use cases, including agriculture and environmental monitoring, mining prospecting, defense and disaster management. The expanded constellation not only increases data volume and coverage but also ensures improved revisit rates while providing the data with greater reliability and precision.

Loft will operate Wyvern’s missions onboard its space infrastructure, made up of satellites. The hyperspectral imager is one of the sensing resources available, and facilitates the operations that serve Wyvern’s expanded constellation.

Loft’s space infrastructure includes resources such as video, thermal and wide-swath imagers as well as RF payloads. Each spacecraft also incorporates onboard compute and connectivity resources to use in tandem with the sensing resources to enable real time analysis of data collected for low-latency applications. These high-performance satellite platforms enable rapid and affordable access to novel datasets, such as hyperspectral imagery.

“Adding additional capacity to our constellation enables Wyvern to better serve our growing customer base,” said Wyvern’s Chief Revenue Officer, Thomas VanMatre. “Loft takes care of the infrastructure so that we can focus on what matters most to our customers.”

“We’re excited to support Wyvern’s mission by providing access to high-quality hyperspectral data,” said Gautier Brunet, VP of Business Development at Loft Orbital. “Our infrastructure is designed to provide a rapid and simple path to orbit, enabling companies like Wyvern to focus on data and analytics rather than the complexities of deploying and operating a large space project.”