Alba Orbital

Alba Orbital is a Glasgow-based Scottish space company focused on small satellites, particularly PocketQube-class spacecraft, and the hardware and mission services used to deploy them in orbit. Its customers include commercial, research and educational users. The company is best known publicly for the AlbaPod family of small-satellite deployers, which can release multiple miniature spacecraft from a launch vehicle's hosted payload platform. Rather than competing with manufacturers of large conventional satellites, Alba Orbital concentrates on the lower-cost, standardized and more scalable end of the small-spacecraft launch and deployment market. Publicly verifiable information about its ownership, former executives and long-term operating position is limited, so those details are not inferred here.

Alba Orbital was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland. It entered the space market through the small-satellite and PocketQube ecosystem, concentrating on systems for deploying miniature spacecraft. Its products are intended for hosted-payload and rideshare missions, allowing customers to place small satellites into orbit without requiring a dedicated launch vehicle. As small-satellite and commercial-space activity expanded, the company focused on standardized deployers, mission integration and related launch services. Public information about its financing history, organizational changes and complete mission record is limited; accordingly, this entry does not add unverified details beyond its founding period, location and principal business focus.

• 2012
  [1]Alba Orbital official websitealbaorbital.com

• AlbaPod

  AlbaPod is Alba Orbital's deployment system for small satellites and PocketQube spacecraft. It is designed to carry and release multiple miniature satellites on hosted-payload or rideshare missions and is a central product in the company's public offering.

1. 1Alba Orbital official websitealbaorbital.com