{"id":6382,"date":"2013-09-24T14:55:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T13:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/?p=6382"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:42:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T09:42:06","slug":"95-alba-orbital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2013\/95-alba-orbital\/","title":{"rendered":"95. Alba Orbital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Founder:<\/strong> Tom Walkinson<br><strong>Founded:<\/strong> July 2011 (launching summer 2013) <br><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albaorbital.com\">www.albaorbital.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When considering the world&rsquo;s great space-faring nations, Scotland doesn&rsquo;t exactly spring to mind &ndash; yet Tom Walkinson&rsquo;s Glasgow-based &lsquo;space burial&rsquo; service, the first of its kind in Europe, aims to change that. Housed at Scotland&rsquo;s Entrepreneurial Spark Incubator and with backing from the government&rsquo;s new Satellite Applications Catapult, Alba Orbital aims to offer a service whereby customers can have their ashes shot into space on board a micro-satellite &ndash; something Walkinson calls the &lsquo;gold standard&rsquo; of funeral care. The company is currently in discussions with large distributors in the funeral care industry in preparation for its product launch later this year with what will be &lsquo;very competitive pricing&rsquo; compared to Celestis, the US equivalent of the service and Alba&rsquo;s only worldwide competitor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder: Tom WalkinsonFounded: July 2011 (launching summer 2013) Website: www.albaorbital.com When considering the world&rsquo;s great space-faring nations, Scotland doesn&rsquo;t exactly spring to mind &ndash; yet Tom Walkinson&rsquo;s Glasgow-based &lsquo;space burial&rsquo; service, the first of its kind in Europe, aims to change that. 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