About Us
Founded in 2012, Alba Orbital in Glasgow, Scotland, is the world’s leading PocketQube satellite manufacturer and launch broker. To date, Alba launch has successfully launched 62 PocketQube satellites into orbit (on 11 missions). Nineteen of those Pocketqubes were Unicorn “‘s designed and built by Alba, Unicorn-2 is the world’s most capable Picosat. Alba also offers ground station services via their Albaconnect platform enabling an end-to-end service to newspace users and operators. Albas is building a fleet of nighttime imaging satellites to service government and commercial clients. Alba now has over 30 customers on 4 continents.
The company now operates entities in both the US and Germany. Alba raised its first $3.4m seed investment in 2021 with Y Combinator.
Tom Walkinshaw's (CEO) TEDx talk on Alba Orbital and PocketQubes
Meet the founder
Tom Walkinshaw - Founder/CEO collecting Alumni of the Year award from Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU)
Tom Walkinshaw, Founder of Alba Orbital, started the company in his bedroom in 2012 building prototype PocketQubes, which would eventually be flown on orbit. Tom has more cumulative years developing PocketQubes than anyone else in the world and has led Alba to its position as the leading company in its field. Tom has won many awards and accolades including GCU Alumni of the Year (2019), 39th Coolest person in Scotland and Forbes 30 under 30 to name a few. Tom is passionate about getting PocketQubes on orbit and helping new teams get flying!
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