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T-2 Months to Launch

T-2 Months to Launch

Winston Tri
January 01, 2025

Our Top 5 Moments from 2024

We’ve had quite the busy twelve months, but even so - it’s important to take a step back to look at what we’ve achieved. Without further ado, here’s Bedo’s 2024 Wrapped, in no particular order:

#1 — Demand is hot for 10cm satellite imagery 📈 🔥

Since this blog post, we’ve signed a total of 19 companies to Albedo Reserve and sold out of the US until 2027! ICYMI: Albedo Reserve is our tasking reservation program to guarantee access to our tasked imagery our first two years on orbit.

Upcoming Launch of Clarity-1 and Albedo’s Early Customers

At the time of writing, customers included: AiDash, Japan Space Imaging (JSI), Open Grid Europe (OGE), PhotoSat, ScaleAI, SkyFi, and an unnamed major multi-strategy hedge fund 🤫

Since then we’ve added 12 more customers!

#2 — We’re not just an Earth Observation mission

Mars: Albedo was among nine companies, including SpaceX, selected to conduct early-stage studies of concepts for commercial services to support lower-cost, higher-frequency missions to the Red Planet. We specifically looked at adapting our VLEO mission to image the surface of Mars 👽.
Space Domain Awareness: Not only can we image other planets, but we can also image other objects in space. Through our TACFI program, Albedo will study how Clarity-1 can enhance Space Domain Awareness of objects in multiple orbits, leveraging our thermal sensor and precision pointing capabilities.

We are stoked to announce that Albedo has been approved and selected for a Tactical Funding Increase (𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐅𝐈) Program

Bringing clarity not only on Earth, but also in space

#3 — We showcased our VLEO platform at See Clarity Day

The day included a comprehensive tour of how we achieve our VLEO mission and keynote speeches from Senator John Hickenlooper (CO) and former NASA administrator Dan Goldin. The Senator even built one of Clarity-1’s solar arrays himself.

This past Monday, the Albedo team revealed our integrated VLEO spacecraft

You had to be there, but our recap it is the next best thing

#4 — Our level of precision is a defining and worthy challenge

A lot goes into ensuring our overall system will actually capture aerial-quality imagery from space. We’re closer than ever — from the individual hardware component level through the many layers of software — to making our imaging mission below a reality.