# Cockpit (Loft Orbital Mission Control)
*consortium-platform . products*

Loft Orbital's web-based mission control and payload tasking platform. Gives hosted-payload customers secure remote command access to their payload on a shared spacecraft as if it were on a dedicated satellite. Includes the Hub hardware adapter for payload integration and the HubKit for pre-flight validation. The federated multi-customer model on shared spacecraft is the reason consortium-platform is the correct kind: each payload customer operates independently through Cockpit while sharing the bus.

## Specifications
- **product status**: operational
- **manufacturer**: loft-orbital
- **analysis service**: {"processing_capabilities":["Payload tasking and scheduling via web-based UI","Remote command transmission to on-orbit payload","Telemetry monitoring and health tracking","Multi-mission resource management across Loft fleet","Pre-flight payload-to-Hub interface validation via HubKit"]}
- **deployment context**: orbital
- **entity type**: analysis_service
- **last verified date**: 2026-05-25
- **verified by**: operator
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **subtype**: platform
- **provider**: loft-orbital
- **attributes**: {"kind":"consortium-platform","product_status":"operational","manufacturer":"loft-orbital","description":"Loft Orbital's web-based mission control and payload tasking platform. Gives hosted-payload customers secure remote command access to their payload on a shared spacecraft as if it were on a dedicated satellite. Includes the Hub hardware adapter for payload integration and the HubKit for pre-flight validation. The federated multi-customer model on shared spacecraft is the reason consortium-platform is the correct kind: each payload customer operates independently through Cockpit while sharing the bus.","sensor":null,"bus":null,"ground_segment":null,"launcher":null,"analysis_service":"{\"processing_capabilities\":[\"Payload tasking and scheduling via web-based UI\",\"Remote command transmission to on-orbit payload\",\"Telemetry monitoring and health tracking\",\"Multi-mission resource management across Loft fleet\",\"Pre-flight payload-to-Hub interface validation via HubKit\"]}","deployment_context":"orbital"}

## Editorial
Cockpit is Loft Orbital's secure web-based mission control interface for hosted payload customers.[^loft-technology] It exposes payload tasking, on-orbit resource scheduling, telemetry monitoring and mission-control functions through Loft's shared-spacecraft operating model, which is why the product is classified as a consortium platform rather than a standalone data product or spacecraft bus.[^loft-technology]

The integration stack around Cockpit includes Loft Hub, which abstracts the payload interface, and HubKit, which provides flight-representative pre-flight validation before payload delivery.[^loft-technology][^loft-hubkit] According to public Loft material as of 2026-05-25, Cockpit is described as a web UI and operational interface; public pages do not provide a versioned SDK or API reference surface, so buyers evaluating developer integration should treat SDK-level detail as a vendor-diligence item.[^loft-technology][^loft-hubkit]

## Sources
- [loft-technology] | Technology, Loft Orbital | https://loftorbital.com/technology/ | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-05-25
- [loft-hubkit] | HubKit: Bench-tested Today, Flight-ready Tomorrow, Loft Orbital | https://loftorbital.com/hubkit-bench-tested-today-flight-ready-tomorrow/ | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-05-25

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