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Alba Orbital (YC W21) — We make satellites to image everywhere on Earth, every 15 minutes

Alba Orbital is building the world's largest earth observation constellation, imaging everywhere on earth, every 15 minutes. We can see events within minutes such as wildfires in real time and have signed >$85m of LOIs, with both government and commercial customers paying pre-orders for imagery.

Alba Orbital is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2021 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: We make satellites to image everywhere on Earth, every 15 minutes (Y Combinator directory entry, March 2, 2021).

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Alba Orbital

New accelerator entry · 2021-03-02 · the record

Winter 2021
batch
10
people
Early
stage
United Kingdom
region
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BatchWinter 2021
Announced2021-03-02
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size10
IndustryIndustrials
Sub-industryIndustrials -> Aviation and Space
SectorsHard Tech, Satellites
RegionsUnited Kingdom, Europe
BasedGlasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
HiringNo
Sitehttps://www.albaorbital.com
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Alba Orbital is building the world's largest earth observation constellation, imaging everywhere on earth, every 15 minutes. We can see events within minutes such as wildfires in real time and have signed >$85m of LOIs, with both government and commercial customers paying pre-orders for imagery. To date we have launched 62 satellites into orbit (more than any all other yc companies combined), with more launching in 2026 onwards. We have launched a number of technology demonstration imaging satellites called Unicorns, which are the world's most advanced satellite under 1kg ever flown in orbit.

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