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Alba Orbital

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commercialFounded 2012
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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.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalOrg RelationshipMar 10, 2022Rocket Lab Has Got It In The Pocket With Launch Of Scottish Alba Orbital’s PocketQubes

Alba Orbital, in partnership with the European Space Agency, developed a flight-proven 3p PocketQube platform called Unicorn-2.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalOrg RelationshipJan 30, 2022Carnegie Mellon University’s Tartan-Artibeus-1 Smallsat Resident In LEO

SpaceChain is working with Addvalue Innovation and Alba Orbital to design a decentralized satellite infrastructure under a 199,580 kg ($596,000) grant awarded in 2020 by Enterprise Singapore and Innovate UK.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalOrg RelationshipSep 28, 2021Spire and SpaceChain announce on-orbit blockchain demonstration

Rocket Lab signed a rideshare agreement with Scottish/American PocketQube satellite manufacturer Alba Orbital to launch a cluster of smallsats.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalNarrative GeneralAug 18, 2021Rocket Lab + Alba Orbital Sign Rideshare Agreement For A Q4 Smallsats Launch

The Alba Orbital cluster includes Alba Orbital’s Unicorn-2 PocketQube satellites and the TRSI-2, TRSI-3, and MyRadar-1 satellites for Alba Orbital’s customers.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalNarrative CapabilityAug 18, 2021Rocket Lab + Alba Orbital Sign Rideshare Agreement For A Q4 Smallsats Launch

The PocketQube platform developed by Alba Orbital is known as Unicorn-2 and is a pico-satellite.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalNarrative GeneralFeb 14, 2021Partnering Up: Alba Orbital + New Light Technologies

New Light Technologies Inc. is partnering with Alba Orbital to provide agencies in and outside of the United States with solutions that utilize low-cost, high-resolution satellite nighttime light data.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalOrg RelationshipFeb 14, 2021Partnering Up: Alba Orbital + New Light Technologies

Alba Orbital is headquartered in Scotland and developed a PocketQube satellite platform in partnership with the European Space Agency.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalTechnical ProductFeb 14, 2021Partnering Up: Alba Orbital + New Light Technologies

Alba Orbital has deployed more PocketQubes on orbit than any other organization worldwide and has a further nine PocketQubes scheduled for launch with SpaceX in 2021.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalNarrative GeneralFeb 14, 2021Partnering Up: Alba Orbital + New Light Technologies

The partnership between New Light Technologies and Alba Orbital will develop algorithms to process Unicorn-2 data and platforms to visualize the data.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalTechnical ProductFeb 14, 2021Partnering Up: Alba Orbital + New Light Technologies

Alba Orbital will host the NightLights Virtual Workshop, the first international conference on night-time satellite imagery, online on 2021-02-19.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalNarrative GeneralFeb 14, 2021Partnering Up: Alba Orbital + New Light Technologies

Alba Orbital developed a PocketQube satellite platform known as Unicorn-2 in partnership with the European Space Agency.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalOrg RelationshipFeb 1, 2021New Light Technologies and Alba Orbital partner to offer low-cost high resolution nighttime light data

New Light Technologies Inc. is partnering with Alba Orbital to provide agencies in and outside of the United States with solutions that utilize low-cost, high-resolution satellite nighttime light data.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalOrg RelationshipFeb 1, 2021New Light Technologies and Alba Orbital partner to offer low-cost high resolution nighttime light data

New Light Technologies Inc. is partnering with Alba Orbital to provide agencies in and outside of the U.S. with low-cost, high-resolution satellite nighttime light data.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalOrg RelationshipJan 29, 2021New Light Technologies partners with Alba Orbital to provide innovative solutions and services

Alba Orbital developed a PocketQube satellite platform in partnership with the European Space Agency.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalTechnical ProductJan 29, 2021New Light Technologies partners with Alba Orbital to provide innovative solutions and services

The PocketQube platform developed by Alba Orbital is known as Unicorn-2.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalTechnical ProductJan 29, 2021New Light Technologies partners with Alba Orbital to provide innovative solutions and services

Alba Orbital operates a NightLights constellation composed of Unicorn-2 spacecraft for Earth observation imagery of nighttime lights.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalNarrative GeneralJan 29, 2021New Light Technologies partners with Alba Orbital to provide innovative solutions and services

The DSI innovation will integrate the Unicorn-2 PocketQube platform built by Alba Orbital with a blockchain payload and software package developed by SpaceChain and on-demand real-time communication provided by Addvalue through its Inter-Satellite Data Relay System (IDRS).

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalOrg RelationshipDec 15, 2020Alba Orbital, SpaceChain UK + Addvalue Innovation Receive Funding For The EUREKA Project

EUREKA, in partnership with Enterprise Singapore and Innovate UK, awarded £440,000 in funding and access to research and development facilities to Alba Orbital, SpaceChain UK Limited, and Addvalue Innovation Pte Ltd under the EUREKA Globalstars-Singapore Call.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalNarrative GeneralDec 15, 2020Alba Orbital, SpaceChain UK + Addvalue Innovation Receive Funding For The EUREKA Project

Alba Orbital will work with Momentus to send as many as ten PocketQubes on the same Falcon 9 flight.

Mentioned as: Alba OrbitalOrg RelationshipMay 20, 2020Momentus announces contracts with Sen, Alba Orbital and SatRevolution
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