Company profile
Albedo
Albedo develops spacecraft, integrated satellites and turnkey missions for very low Earth orbit. Its flight-proven platform uses autonomous station-keeping...
Facts
- Segment
- SPACE
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Denver
- Founded
- 2020
- Website
- https://albedo.com
About Albedo
Albedo builds satellite buses and complete missions for operation below 400 kilometres in very low Earth orbit. Its Precision platform uses a low-drag structure, atomic-oxygen-resistant materials, autonomous station-keeping and control-moment-gyroscope agility to sustain useful life in the denser upper atmosphere. Clarity combines that bus with Albedo's visible and thermal imaging payload, while Vicinity is being developed for higher-power communications, sensing and demonstration payloads.
Clarity-1 launched in March 2025 and validated sustained VLEO operations, drag modelling and the core Precision platform. Albedo offers payload accommodation, satellite integration, launch and mission operations for imaging, radio-frequency observation, radar or lidar sensing, direct communications and defence missions. The company shifted from selling a single imagery service toward supplying adaptable spacecraft and turnkey missions based on the flight-proven platform.
Market context
DEPLOYMENT
Summary
Type: VLEO satellite company
Core: VLEO satellite buses
Function: Interpret scenes
Audience: Earth-observation customers
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Albedo announces Vicinity high-power VLEO bus for 2027 mission — 2026-04-07
- Clarity-1 validates Albedo VLEO bus before contact loss — 2026-01-23
- NRO awards Albedo Stage II commercial-imagery contract — 2025-08-01
- Albedo Clarity-1 satellite launches and makes first contact — 2025-03-17
- Albedo selected for $12 million AFRL STRATFI contract — 2025-03-03
- Albedo raises $35 million Series A-1 led by Standard Investments — 2024-01-23
- NRO awards Albedo electro-optical capabilities contract — 2023-12-05
- Albedo opens Denver-area satellite manufacturing facility — 2023-06-08