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Adding thermal infrared data will refine albedo and size estimates and improve taxonomic classification for near Earth asteroids.
Albedo's Clarity-1 satellite is designed to orbit below 300 kilometers from Earth.
The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) awarded Albedo up to $12 million to share VLEO on-orbit data.
Albedo aims for a four-year mission life for its VLEO hardware by minimizing atomic oxygen damage.
Warming is accelerating due to reduced aerosol cooling, strong cloud feedbacks, and declines in albedo.
Albedo launched Clarity-1, its first commercial imaging satellite in VLEO, in March.
Albedo Space will abandon its commercial imaging business to focus entirely on building VLEO satellite buses for other payload operators.
Albedo aims to create more value by offering platforms for other payload operators in imagery, communications, or defense to fly their payloads in VLEO.
Albedo Space, a Colorado startup, operates the Clarity-1 imaging satellite in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO).
Albedo plans to ramp up its production capacity to produce hundreds of satellites per year.
Clarity-1 is performing 12% better than expected, contrary to Albedo's initial expectation of a five-year lifespan for its satellites.
Albedo intends to expand its capabilities in VLEO by flying Clarity-1 and future satellites at lower altitudes.
Albedo plans to narrow its focus to develop and produce VLEO capable satellite platforms.
Most of Albedo's engineering team will remain in place despite the layoffs.
Albedo is the only company with a flight-proven VLEO bus ready for market.
Albedo's shift in focus is in response to the success of Clarity-1 and increasing demand for VLEO in defense and commercial missions.
Albedo’s first satellite, Clarity-1, launched earlier this year and is nearing the end of its commissioning process.
Albedo is a startup developing a very low Earth orbit satellite constellation intended to provide very high-resolution imagery.
Albedo received one of NASA’s commercial Mars studies to evaluate how its satellite services could operate at Mars.
Albedo presented imagery pricing ranging from $120 per square kilometer for resolutions coarser than 50 centimeters to $3,000 per square kilometer for resolutions finer than 20 centimeters, and said its satellites could image as sharp as 11 centimeters per pixel.