Author Topic: Alba Orbital (Read 6634 times)

Olaf · « **on:** 07/25/2019 05:23 pm »

Gongora has suggested to create a own thread for Alba Orbital. Because we do not know which launch vehicle the will use after their first two flights. Many thanks for his idea.
http://www.albaorbital.com

Olaf · « **Reply #1 on:** 07/25/2019 05:29 pm »

Launch schedule

Olaf · « **Reply #2 on:** 07/25/2019 05:30 pm »

https://twitter.com/AlbaOrbital/status/1153999898829832192

Olaf · « **Reply #3 on:** 07/25/2019 05:30 pm »

https://twitter.com/AlbaOrbital/status/1154368331429949440

Olaf · « **Reply #4 on:** 01/09/2020 10:48 am »

https://twitter.com/AlbaOrbital/status/1195494399679094784

https://twitter.com/AlbaOrbital/status/1214932730045194240

GreenShrike · « **Reply #5 on:** 01/09/2020 08:08 pm »

Any idea what happened to Alba Cluster 1? I take it Vector didn't launch it to SSO...

For future reference Alba Cluster 2 appears to have launched on Electron's Flight 10 "Running Out of Fingers", though it looks like Discovery from Mini-cubes LLC didn't make the launch.

Svetoslav · « **Reply #6 on:** 01/09/2020 08:22 pm »

Quote from: GreenShrike on 01/09/2020 08:08 pm

Any idea what happened to Alba Cluster 1? I take it Vector didn't launch it to SSO...

For future reference Alba Cluster 2 appears to have launched on Electron's Flight 10 "Running Out of Fingers", though it looks like Discovery from Mini-cubes LLC didn't make the launch.

Discovery didn't make the launch due to paperwork issues. However the Mini-Cubes company was allowed to put a data card on the Albapod, thus the company still managed to fly many of our digital items such as images, photos, books on this specific mission. I am quite happy and grateful for that.

Olaf · « **Reply #7 on:** 01/20/2020 10:14 am »

https://twitter.com/AlbaOrbital/status/1218543014794186752

Olaf · « **Reply #8 on:** 01/30/2020 03:49 pm »

https://twitter.com/AlbaOrbital/status/1222895568915058698

Olaf · « **Reply #9 on:** 05/10/2020 05:27 pm »

https://twitter.com/AlbaOrbital/status/1258787501692551168

Olaf · « **Reply #10 on:** 05/10/2020 05:29 pm »

https://twitter.com/AlbaOrbital/status/1238521753749434370

Olaf · « **Reply #11 on:** 05/15/2020 12:36 pm »

https://twitter.com/AlbaOrbital/status/1261035128165457924

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Big news for the PocketQube community! We have manifested our 10 'Alba Cluster 3' satellite customers on a SpaceX Falcon 9, launching in December this year from Cape Canaveral. Excited to be working with Momentus and SpaceX on this historic launch! More: http://albaorbital.com/new-blog/2020/5/14/momentus-and-alba-orbital-sign-contract-for-up-to-10-pocketqubes…

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #12 on:** 05/16/2020 02:01 am »

Current satellites on Alba Cluster 3. The website lists the first six satellites and says there is 4p remaining. The 7th and 8th announced satellites have a total of 3p, leaving 1p which is room for only one more satellite. That gives a total of 9 satellites, which seems to contradict the 10 customers reported.

http://www.albaorbital.com/launch

LibertyQube 1 (1p)
Grizu 263a (1p)
Pycubed (1p)
Hades (1.5p)
TRSI 2 (1p)
EASAT 2 (1.5p)
Tartan Artibeus (1p)
Sattla (2p)
Delfi-PQ

25-05-20 Added Delfi-PQ.

Olaf · « **Reply #13 on:** 05/24/2020 01:02 pm »

https://twitter.com/AlbaOrbital/status/1263866951983661058

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Today we announce the 9th customer for Alba Cluster 3, Delft University @tudelft from the Netherlands. We look forward to working with Dr Alessandra Menicucci and her team from the Aerospace Engineering Faculty @AETUDelft as they fly their 3p PocketQube Delfi-PQ!

Rik ISS-fan · « **Reply #14 on:** 05/27/2020 01:04 am »

Delfi-PQ together with a demo pocketcube sat from AlbaOrbital themselves were Alba Cluster 1. I think the second sat was Unicorn-2. That should have launched on the maiden launch of Vector-R. But that launch opportunity went bust when Vector Aerospace went into bankruptcy.
Now Delfi-PQ finally has found another launch opportunity.

Olaf · « **Reply #15 on:** 06/13/2020 09:09 am »

https://twitter.com/AlbaOrbital/status/1271408216480591872

tomwalki · « **Reply #16 on:** 07/08/2020 06:57 pm »

Hi All, This is Tom Walkinshaw from Alba Orbital. I am the Founder CEO of the company. Thanks for following our progress, hope you are all excited for our upcoming flight on Falcon 9 later this year! If you have questions feel free to post them and I will try to get you a relevant response.

gongora · « **Reply #17 on:** 07/08/2020 09:23 pm »

I'm not sure how much you can say about this, but I'm curious about how the deployments will be handled among the different payloads coming off of the Falcon 9 second stage. Your deployers are mounted on the Momentus adapter plate and will deploy the PocketQubes directly from there (still attached to the second stage), correct? Can you say how long the deployment sequence takes, whether your deployment events happen consecutively or get interleaved with other customers, whether they spin the stage during deployments, or anything else of that sort?

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #18 on:** 07/09/2020 06:59 am »

Quote from: tomwalki on 07/08/2020 06:57 pm

Hi All, This is Tom Walkinshaw from Alba Orbital. I am the Founder CEO of the company. Thanks for following our progress, hope you are all excited for our upcoming flight on Falcon 9 later this year! If you have questions feel free to post them and I will try to get you a relevant response.

G'day Tom! Can you tell also the name of all the payloads you are carrying on Alba Cluster 3? Your website only lists 10p of payloads, but the capacity is 18p. Thanks!

tomwalki · « **Reply #19 on:** 07/09/2020 04:33 pm »

Quote from: gongora on 07/08/2020 09:23 pm

I'm not sure how much you can say about this, but I'm curious about how the deployments will be handled among the different payloads coming off of the Falcon 9 second stage. Your deployers are mounted on the Momentus adapter plate and will deploy the PocketQubes directly from there (still attached to the second stage), correct? Can you say how long the deployment sequence takes, whether your deployment events happen consecutively or get interleaved with other customers, whether they spin the stage during deployments, or anything else of that sort?

Hi Gongora, thanks for the question! Yep, cant say to much, but we are on the 'plaza deck' which remains attached to Falcon 9 and it looks really cool! I think a lot of the sequencing is still tbc, but with Rocketlab we worked on the optimal sequence quite close to launch as there were a number of constraints we had to allow for which were somewhat imposed late in the day.