Very Low Earth Orbit satellite builder Albedo has expanded its strategic advisory board, which was formed in May 2023. Rick Ambrose, former executive vice president of the space business at Lockheed Martin, and retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Pat O'Reilly, vice president of corporate strategy at L3Harris Technologies, are the new members of the advisory board, Albedo said Monday.

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Booz Allen Hamilton’s venture capital arm has invested in space company Albedo to accelerate the delivery of space data and other capabilities to federal government and commercial clients and support the deployment of the latter’s satellite constellation. Albedo builds very low Earth orbit satellites designed to collect ultra-high resolution thermal imagery to help customers in […] More

The National Reconnaissance Office awarded five companies contracts to provide commercial electro-optical capabilities to the agency. The Strategic Commercial Enhancements contracts were granted to Airbus' U.S. Space and Defense business, Albedo Space, Luxembourg-based Hydrosat, Muon Space and Turion Space, NRO announced Tuesday.

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Clint Crosier, director of aerospace and satellite solutions at Amazon Web Services, said AWS and AlchemistX selected 10 startups for a four-week program meant to provide mentoring, technical and business development support to help such companies further develop their space technology platforms. The AWS Space Accelerator, which started the application process in March, will kick […] More

Amazon Web Services has partnered with North Carolina State University’s Institute for Climate Studies to develop cloud-based datasets for two studies on the Earth's natural phenomena using tools such as the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

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