With NASA’s Backing, Starfish Space Is Getting Ready for the Orbital Debut of Its Flagship Otter Spacecraft

After seven years, a spacecraft company is releasing its Otters into the wild

There is always a tension that comes with seeing the first of anything fly."

With NASA’s backing, Starfish Space is getting ready for the orbital debut of its flagship Otter spacecraft

All systems go for Starfish's Otter space vehicle, which is designed to inspect inoperable satellites up close for NASA's SSPICY mission.

Starfish Space gets set for debut of flagship spacecraft

Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space is ready for the first launch of its full-size Otter space servicing vehicle, following two orbital tests of scaled-down prototypes. Otter is due to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base no earlier than Oct. 1, riding into orbit alongside other payloads on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 satellite rideshare mission. The 660-pound […]

Starfish’s First Operational Otter Heading to Orbit Next Month

During the Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability, aka SSPICY, mission, Otter will approach and inspect multiple US defunct satellites, whose operators have agreed to receive a visit from the spacecraft.