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

Albedo announced that its Clarity-1 satellite was successfully launched to orbit on SpaceX's Transporter-13 Rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Albedo team has ...

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 ...

In the “Cake Topper” position atop the payload stack is a dual-payload adapter holding two very high-resolution electro-optical imaging satellites from Albedo Space and Satrec Initiative.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

The contract will provide AFRL with Albedo's unique dataset on how U.S. Government space capabilities can operate effectively in VLEO, an orbital regime that offers significant advantages but ...