Alba Orbital is a Scottish company specializing in PocketQube satellites, the world's smallest commercial satellites, and Albapod deployment systems. As a leading manufacturer and launch broker, Alba Orbital aims to democratize access to space, offering end-to-end services, including their AlbaConnect ground station platform. They have launched over 40 PocketQubes into orbit through partnerships with companies like SpaceX and Rocket Lab and serve customers like the ESA and Hello Space. Alba Orbital is also developing Earth observation constellations using its Unicorn picosatellite platforms for high-resolution imagery.
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Alba Orbital coordinated SpaceX’s Transporter 16 mission carrying SpinnyOne.
SEOPS prepared five PocketQubes from Alba Orbital and 14 cubesats of varying sizes for Transporter-16.
SEOPS integrated four PocketQube spacecraft for Alba Orbital on Transporter 15.
Alba Orbital’s 3P Unicorn-2 satellite is the world’s smallest commercial Earth observation platform.
Alba Orbital provides turnkey solutions from advanced pico-satellite platforms to low-cost launch opportunities and ground station services.
PocketQubes can be launched starting from as little as €25,000 through Alba Orbital’s dedicated launch services.
Alba Orbital has delivered 53 pico-satellites on orbit to date.
Four PocketQubes will be deployed by Alba Orbital in collaboration with SEOPS as part of the Transporter-15 rideshare mission with SpaceX.
Under the multi-launch agreement, Alba Orbital will deliver four 3p PocketQubes (5 x 5 x 0.15 m) dedicated to Hello Space Systems' commercial IoT constellation.
Alba Orbital has delivered 41 satellites to orbit to date with launch partners including SpaceX and Rocket Lab.
Hello Space will receive four 3p PocketQubes from Alba Orbital, each measuring 5 x 5 x 0.15 m and weighing 0.25 kg.
Alba Orbital provides turnkey services including pico-satellite platforms, low-cost launch opportunities, and ground station services.
Alba Orbital’s Unicorn-2 PocketQube will carry an optical night-time imaging payload designed to monitor light pollution globally.
Alba Orbital will deploy a cluster of four pico-satellites including Unicorn-2, TRSI-2, TRSI-3, and MyRadar-1.
Electron will deploy 34 payloads from Alba Orbital, Astrix Astronautics, Aurora Propulsion Technologies, E-Space, Unseenlabs, and Swarm Technologies via global launch services provider Spaceflight Inc.
Alba Orbital’s Unicorn satellite constellation is designed to provide high-resolution imagery of the Earth at night to track light pollution, urbanization, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy usage.
Alba Orbital designed, built, tested, launched, deployed, and operates the Unicorn-2D commercial PocketQube in orbit for data customers.
McKenzie Intelligence Services, an insurance technology firm and Night Lights data user, expects Alba Orbital’s high-resolution night-time imagery to support higher-fidelity analysis of global perils and rapid identification of properties without power during incidents similar to the Texas freeze that caused $15,000,000,000 in insured losses.
Alba Orbital’s next mission, Alba Cluster X, is due to launch from New Zealand on Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle in NET 2022-04-01.
Rocket Lab will launch Alba Orbital’s cluster of small satellites from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula in 2022-04-01.