{"id":49976,"date":"2024-12-13T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T11:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/loft-orbital-to-host-hyperspectral-sensors-for-australian-startup-esper\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T19:48:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T11:48:11","slug":"loft-orbital-to-host-hyperspectral-sensors-for-australian-startup-esper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/loft-orbital-to-host-hyperspectral-sensors-for-australian-startup-esper\/","title":{"rendered":"Loft Orbital to Host Hyperspectral Sensors for Australian Startup Esper"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Loft Orbital <\/b>will fly four hyperspectral sensors on upcoming Loft satellites for Australian startup <b>Esper<\/b>. As Esper\u2019s space infrastructure partner, Loft will integrate and operate the first first Four Leaf Clover (FLC) hyperspectral sensors on its satellites, beginning in 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Four Leaf Clover is Esper\u2019s hyperspectral constellation, which will image hundreds of bands in the visible and shortwave infrared spectrum. Esper aims for the constellation to help identify critical minerals, detect methane leaks, and provide precision monitoring for industries such as mining, agriculture, and oil and gas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Esper is designing the sensors for the constellation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Loft Orbital provides space infrastructure services on its Yet Another Mission (YAM) satellites and it offers hosted physical and virtual payloads and dedicated satellites and constellations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEsper\u2019s FLC constellation is an ideal fit for Loft\u2019s infrastructure\u201d, said Mitchell Scher, Loft\u2019s Senior Director of Business Development. \u201cWe want to let Esper focus on developing a high quality instrument and building new applications using their data, rather than becoming a space company to become a data and analytics company.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loft Orbital will fly four hyperspectral sensors on upcoming Loft satellites for Australian startup Esper. As Esper\u2019s space infrastructure partner, Loft will integrate and operate the first first Four Leaf Clover (FLC) hyperspectral sensors on its satellites, beginning in 2026.&nbsp; Four Leaf Clover is Esper\u2019s hyperspectral constellation, which will image hundreds of bands in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}