Albedo
Albedo is a Satellites & Earth Observation company founded in 2020 and based in Broomfield, United States. It has raised $93M in total funding, most recently a Series A-1 in 2024.
Albedo was founded in 2020 by Topher Haddad, AyJay Lasater, and Winston Tri, and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, in the Denver metro area. It builds satellites that fly in very low Earth orbit (VLEO) to capture 10-centimeter visible and 2-meter thermal imagery, a resolution previously available only from aircraft or classified government systems. Its first satellite, Clarity-1, launched on SpaceX Transporter-13 in March 2025. After Clarity-1 outperformed expectations, Albedo announced in October 2025 that it would wind down operating its own commercial imagery constellation and instead sell its VLEO satellite buses as a platform to defense, intelligence, and other payload operators.
Albedo is the leading attempt to commercialize very-low-Earth-orbit flight, where satellites skim close enough to the planet to rival aerial resolution.
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