alba cluster 9 launch

Alba Orbital successfully launched the Alba Cluster 9 mission from onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket (Mission Korea 425) on 1st December 2023 at 18:19 UTC. The Falcon 9 launched successfully from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This mission served as Alba Orbital’s 7th successful orbital flight, delivering 4 PicoSats to space. This takes the companies ever-growing number of satellites launched up to 41!

mission overview

Onboard this rideshare mission were four PocketQubes, developed by Alba Orbital (Scotland) & Innova Space (Argentina). We sent up three of our own spacecraft (Unicorn-2L, Unicorn-2M & Unicorn-2N) along with Innova Space’s MDQubesat-1. All four PocketQubes deployed successfully from our Albapods on the 4th & 5th of December.

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 🚀