"Clarity-1" c/o Albedo

Albedo’s Clarity-1 satellite — affectionately nicknamed “Clare” — delivers 10 cm optical imagery from Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), marking a historic breakthrough in U.S. commercial Earth observation. This level of detail has, until now, been the domain of classified national systems or costly, aircraft-based surveillance. Clare is the first commercial platform to achieve near-aerial fidelity from orbit, with the potential for on-demand, scalable coverage. Operating hundreds of kilometers closer to Earth than traditional satellites, Clare unlocks a new tier of access for infrastructure monitoring, environmental sensing, and dynamic threat detection — without the limitations of airborne tasking. As the U.S. modernizes its geospatial intelligence stack, commercially available 10 cm imagery from a VLEO satellite bus introduces a sovereign, cost-efficient layer of strategic visibility — critical for national resilience across infrastructure, energy, agriculture, water, and environmental systems in a rapidly changing world (like the American Southwest facing escalating water stress!).