Alba Orbital is a Glasgow-based company founded in 2012 that designs, manufactures and launches PocketQube satellites, cube-shaped spacecraft of 5 cm per unit weighing well under one kilogram. Its Unicorn platforms include the Unicorn-1 1P PocketQube and the Unicorn-2 3P Earth observation satellite, which can host customer payloads. The company also sells Albapod deployers, launch integration and launch brokering on SpaceX and Rocket Lab rideshare missions, test services such as vibration and thermal vacuum testing, and ground station services through its Alba Connect subscription offering.

Alba's Unicorn-2 fleet is being used to build a nighttime imaging constellation marketed as NightLights, and the company began releasing Earth observation imagery in 2025. Customers have included the European Space Agency, TU Delft, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Hello Space and Stara Space. The company has over 30 customers on four continents and has launched 62 PocketQubes on 11 missions as of 2026.

Alba raised a seed round of $3.4 million in May 2021 led by Metaplanet Holdings, with participation from Y Combinator and other investors, and has received public grants including EUREKA funding and Scottish Enterprise support. The company has operating entities in the UK, the United States and Germany.