The Clarity-1 very-low Earth orbit (VLEO) imaging satellite by Denver's Albedo Space and the first microsatellite owned and ...

Scientists in China have built the world’s most powerful spy camera, capable of recognising people’s faces from low-Earth ...

Latest Valuation/Funding Estimate: $93 million funding raised Albedo is a cutting-edge space technology startup developing VLEO satellites designed to capture ultra-high-resolution Earth imagery.

The idea of flying satellites in "very" low-Earth orbit is not new. Dating back to the dawn of the space age in the late 1950s, the first US spy satellites, as part of the Corona program, orbited the ...

Albedo, soon to be the first commercial company to operate in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), has been selected for a Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) opportunity by the Air Force Research Laboratory ...

Credit: Albedo/YouTube Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. SAN FRANCISCO – Earth-observation startup Albedo won a ...

The amount of radiation reflected is known as albedo. Having lots of fresh snow increases albedo because the sun penetrates into the powder, reflecting off the small, newly fallen crystals.

US satellite imaging startup Albedo Space is also working on technology to zoom in on individual humans on Earth, though the founders claim it will not be capable of facial recognition.