Alba Cluster 7 Launch

Alba Orbital successfully launched the Alba Cluster 7 mission onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket (‘Transporter-8’) on 12th June 2023 at 21:35 UTC from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This mission served as Alba Orbital’s fifth successful orbital flight, with 6 PocketQubes on board successfully deployed. This takes the company’s total launched satellites up to 31, the most for any organization worldwide!

mission overview

Onboard this rideshare mission were 6 spacecraft comprised of 5cm PocketQube pico-satellites 6 different countries. These were developed by Alba Orbital (Scotland), Hello Space (Turkey), BME (Hungary), AMSAT-EA (Spain), ROM-SPACE (Romania) & Ariel University (Israel), with functions such as Earth Observation, Communication, Amateur Radio, Technology demonstration & Electrosmog monitoring.

alba orbital (scotland) - ‘unicorn-2i’

Our latest earth observation pico-satellite dedicated to monitoring Artificial Light at Night.

Hello space (Turkey) - ‘istanbul-1’

A 1P PocketQube from Hello Space demonstrating an Internet of Things payload for an upcoming IoT constellation.

bme (hungary) - ‘mrc-100’

A 3P PocketQube from Budapest University of Technology and Economics dedicated to monitoring electrosmog pollution from space.

Rom-space (romania) - ‘rom-2’

Romania's 1st PocketQube designed and built by a high school team (!!) (ROM-Space) from Liceul Teoretic International de Informatica Bucuresti.

amsat-ea & Hydra (spain) - ‘uresat-1’

A radio amateur 1.5P mission from AMSAT-EA, designed by Spanish startup Hydra Space Systems.

ariel university (israel) - ‘sattla-2i’

The latest educational 2p PocketQube platform from Ariel University, designed to test Free Space Optical Communication concepts.

deployment Footage

If you would like to send your own spacecraft to orbit or are interested in a turn-key hosted payload mission with our Unicorn-2 platform, get in touch with the Alba Orbital launch team at contact@albaorbital.com 🚀