Alba Orbital

Positioning

Alba Orbital is the company that made the PocketQube — a 5cm-cube satellite class an order of magnitude cheaper than CubeSats — commercially real: it builds the Unicorn platforms, sells PocketQube kits, brokers rideshare launch slots for third-party picosatellites, and claims around 62 satellites launched, the largest track record in the form factor. It operates its own ground stations and sells connectivity/data as an AlbaConnect subscription, so it spans manufacture, launch brokerage and operations for the smallest satellite class. The structural question is whether the picosatellite niche ever supports a large business or stays a specialist segment; either way Alba effectively owns it.

Latest signals

• 28 Nov 2025Seops Space deployed 11 spacecraft on SpaceX’s Transporter-15 mission.Spaceflight Now
• 16 Jan 2025Alba Orbital launched the AlbaPod 6P PocketQube deployer aboard D-Orbit’s ION mission.D-Orbit
• 3 Dec 2024Trade in Space and Alba Orbital are designing a PocketQube mission to monitor agricultural water use.AAC Clyde Space

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Facts, with sources

• 28 Nov 202511Deployment · Spaceflight Now
• 16 Jan 2025AlbaPod 6P PocketQube deployer aboard D-Orbit’s ION missionProduct launch · D-Orbit
• 3 Dec 2024Trade in Space and Alba Orbital are designing a PocketQube mission to monitor agricultural water usePartnership · AAC Clyde Space
• 62Deployment · eoPortal / company

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Scores, Space (of 10)

Traction: deployment, production, commercials, progress. Capability: technology, positioning, firepower, leverage.

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