Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)
Summary
Albedo Space's Clarity-1 mission demonstrates sustainable VLEO operations with an in-house bus and cloud-native ground system. The postmortem highlights autonomous control, rapid end-to-end imaging, and a data-to-delivery pipeline, though CMG faults required adaptive strategies; 98% of the 10 cm imagery pyramid was achieved and actionable next steps were outlined for future missions.