{"id":59190,"date":"2020-08-17T20:37:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T12:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/a-pocketqube-startup-story-with-alba-orbitals-tom-walkinshaw\/"},"modified":"2020-08-17T20:37:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T12:37:52","slug":"a-pocketqube-startup-story-with-alba-orbitals-tom-walkinshaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/a-pocketqube-startup-story-with-alba-orbitals-tom-walkinshaw\/","title":{"rendered":"A PocketQube Startup Story with Alba Orbital\u2019s Tom Walkinshaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Walkinshaw is the founder and CEO of <strong>Alba Orbital<\/strong>, a startup specializing in building pocketqubes \u2014 small satellites that only measures 5 cm across. He started the company with prototypes in 2019, and now his satellites are set to fly on a <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> Falcon 9 launch set for December.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Making satellites smaller and more inexpensive makes space more accessible to everyone, Walkinshaw says. He\u2019s excited for different pocketqube applications, including RF and imagery,&nbsp; which he hopes can benefit the greater good.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode we talk to Walkinshaw about building a pocketqube startup, applications for tiny 5 cm satellites, making space more accessible, and being named the 39th coolest person in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A PocketQube Startup Story with Alba Orbital's Tom Walkinshaw by On Orbit Podcast by Via Satellite\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F877519459&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=750&amp;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Walkinshaw is the founder and CEO of Alba Orbital, a startup specializing in building pocketqubes \u2014 small satellites that only measures 5 cm across. He started the company with prototypes in 2019, and now his satellites are set to fly on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch set for December.&nbsp; Making satellites smaller and more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}