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Alba Orbital

Alba Orbital is building the world's largest earth observation constellation, imaging everywhere on earth, every 15 minutes. We can see events within minutes such as wildfires in real time and have signed >$85m of LOIs, with both government and commercial customers paying pre-orders for imagery. To date we have launched 62 satellites into orbit (more than any all other yc companies combined), with more launching in 2026 onwards. We have launched a number of technology demonstration imaging satel

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Alba Orbital is building the world's largest earth observation constellation, imaging everywhere on earth, every 15 minutes. We can see events within minutes such as wildfires in real time and have signed >$85m of LOIs, with both government and commercial customers paying pre-orders for imagery. To date we have launched 62 satellites into orbit (more than any all other yc companies combined), with more launching in 2026 onwards. We have launched a number of technology demonstration imaging satel

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shared extracted concept terms: commercial, customer; shared product terms: such, both, commercial, customer; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 64

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shared extracted concept terms: customer; shared product terms: earth, observation, within, customer; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 58

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shared extracted concept terms: commercial, customer; shared product terms: both, government, commercial, customer; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 41

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shared product terms: satellite, government, earth, observation; shared affiliation: Y Combinator