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37°45'00.4"N
122°28'55.3"W
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
300
 CM
Bringing space closer to Earth

Meet Precision

The platform flying in VLEO today

Clarity-1 class payload: 5 year life at 275 km (solar cycle average)
Smaller payloads: Longer life or fly even lower
Additional versions coming soon.
CONTACT SALES
See the details to plan, protect, and predict what matters—from space.
FOR DEFENSE & INTELLIGENCE
Add orbital diversity to your mission. Proliferated VLEO ensures coverage, increases performance, and provides continuity if higher orbits are contested.
FOR ADVANCING SCIENCE
Bring your own payload and level up your data. 4x resolution for passive systems and 16x resolution for active systems. Cut your latency in half.

Never worry about space debris again.

Unlock the potential of VLEO

Clarity-1 is operating in VLEO today and will maneuver even lower soon
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Seeing is doing.

01
energy & Infrastructure
Protect and maintain remote assets, pre-empt environmental and operational risks, and better plan future projects.
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02
agriculture
Assess soil conditions, manage crop health, and increase yield for sustainable precision farming.
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03
urban development
Audit land use and zoning, manage compliance, infrastructure, resources, and foster thriving communities.
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04
insurance & investment
Underwrite strategic assets or infrastructure, validate claim events and ESG metrics, and identify business and investment risks.
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05
supply chain
Monitor facility and fleet conditions, plan around disruptions, and run more efficient and resilient logistics.
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06
sustainability & eSG
Optimize models, validate emission goals, and establish the collective ground truth for positive change.
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07
defense & intelligence
Establish ground truth, monitor hotspots, predict patterns, and mobilize missions with speed.
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THERMAL
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From space to server
—in under one hour.

Task our satellites and search existing imagery using our intuitive API.
SEE DETAILS
A cloud-centric delivery pipeline: from collection to usage under one hour.
SEE DETAILS
Analysis-ready data. Stop wasting time processing data, and start using it.
SEE DETAILS
Visible
Nadir
30° Off-Nadir
Native Panchromatic GSD
10 cm
12.4 cm
Native Multispectral GSD
40 cm
49.7 cm
Spectral Bands
400 - 700 nm
450 - 510 nm
510 - 580 nm
630 - 690 nm
770 - 895 nm
NIIRS*
7.0
6.7
Orbit
274 km Circular, Sun-Sync & Mid-Inc
Geolocation Accuracy (CE90)
 5.0 m (CE90), 3.3 m (RMSE)
6.3 m (CE90),
4.1 m (RMSE)
Revisit Rate
(per satellite)
15 days
5 days
Revisit Rate
(full constellation)
1.5 revisits / day
3-5 revisits / day
Capture-to-Delivery Latency
30 minutes (average)
Clarity-1 may not achieve these specifications perfectly. The current plan is to fly around 320 km, which impacts the altitude-dependent parameters accordingly.

NATIONAL IMAGE INTERPRETABILITY RATING SCALE (NIIRS) IS CALCULATED WITH GIQE V5

NUMBER OF REVISITS/DAY IS LATITUDE DEPENDENT | LATS 0 TO 20 = 3 REVISITS/DAY | LATS > 41 = 5 REVISITS/DAY

CAPABLE OF IMAGING UP TO 60 DEGREES OFF NADIR UPON REQUEST
Thermal Long-Wave Infrared (LWIR)
Nadir
30° Off-Nadir
GSD
2.0 m
2.6 m
Spectral Bands
7.5 - 13.5 microns
Noise Equivalent Delta Temperature (NEDT)
430 mK​ at 300K (27°C, 80°F)
Orbit
274 km Circular, Sun-Sync & Mid-Inc
Geolocation Accuracy (CE90)
 5.0 m (CE90), 3.3 m (RMSE)
6.3 m (CE90), 4.1 m (RMSE)
Revisit Rate
(<53° latitudes, per satellite)
15 days
5 days
Revisit Rate
(<53° latitudes, full constellation)
1.5 revisits / day
3-5 revisits / day
Feature
Photogrammetry
Ready
View
Ready
Analysis
Ready
Intended User
Processing: 3D Exploitation, Mensuration, and Triangulation
Highest Visual
Quality for Displaying
Full Richness of the Data’s Spectral Content in
Easy-To-Use Packaging
Products / Items (STAC)
1B, OR2A
Visible Ortho, Color IR Ortho, Colorized Thermal,
Vis-Sharpened Thermal
Top-of-Atmosphere,
Surface Reflectance,
Cloud and Other Quality Masks. Temperature
for Thermal.
Designed to Integrate with
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Software
Web/Mobile Map Viewing Applications, COTS
and OSS Mapping Software,
Simple Image Viewers
Remote Sensing Exploitation Software, AI/ML
Software and Workflows
Data Formats
COG, Specialized Formats (NITF)
Map Tiles, COG
COG
User Can Download
Yes
Yes (Tile Sets, COGS)
Yes (ARD Tiles, COGS)
User Can Stream
Yes
Yes (Tiles, COGs)
Yes
Push to User's Cloud Storage
Yes
Yes
Yes

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IN THE NEWS
"A handful of new space companies have announced plans to develop satellites for very low-Earth orbit (VLEO). The first of these companies to actually reach the launch pad is a Denver-based startup named Albedo."
"Spy satellites are essentially flying telescopes that look down rather than up. The sharpness of their images depends on two things: the size of the mirror and the telescope's distance from its target. Albedo is focused on the second of those factors."
"In fact, if Albedo can deliver, its offering may be cost-competitive with sub-Kármán line optical operations and eat market share away from camera-equipped Cessnas, enterprise DJI drones, and the like."
"By flying so low, Albedo’s birds could theoretically collect optical imagery that’s 10X better than what’s commercially sold today."
"Barely two years after its founding, Colorado startup Albedo has caught the attention of Space Force intelligence pros with its promise of satellite imagery at a level of detail rivaling that taken by surveillance aircraft."
"Albedo was granted a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration license to sell commercial optical imagery with a resolution of 10 centimeters per pixel. Ten centimeters per pixel is higher than any commercial satellite imagery currently on the market, which made some people question how NOAA would handle the request."

We’re changing the bigger picture, one detail at a time.

At Albedo, we believe VLEO is the best vantage point to protect life on Earth. Our platform and technology allows leaders to move with precision, see with clarity, and act with certainty.
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