Tag: Starfish Space
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Space Force Sets 2027 Flights for Two Commercial Satellite Servicing Demonstrations
The planned missions represent a transition in how the Department of Defense approaches space domain awareness, mobility, and logistics. Historically, military and intelligence satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit were treated as single-use, non-serviceable assets, built with finite station-keeping propellant reserves that fixed their operational lifespans regardless of payload health. Under SSC’s Space Mobility and Logistics…
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Impulse Space Miras Approach Within 200 Meters in Orbital Rendezvous Demonstration
Two Impulse Space Mira orbital transfer vehicles approached within approximately 200 meters of each other in low Earth orbit during a July 2026 rendezvous and proximity operations demonstration, the California-based company announced September 8. The maneuver involved spacecraft launched on the LEO Express 2 and LEO Express 3 missions and demonstrated controlled orbit matching, close…
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Starfish Space shifts its sights to Australian satellite for orbital docking demonstration
An artist’s conception shows Starfish Space’s Otter Pup 2 satellite in orbit. (Starfish Space Illustration) Eleven months after launch, Starfish Space’s Otter Pup 2 satellite is finally kicking its test mission into high gear, closing in for a rendezvous with a newly designated target. If all goes according to plan, Otter Pup 2 will dock…
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Starfish Space raises $110M to scale up its satellite servicing missions
An artist’s conception shows Starfish Space’s Otter satellite servicing vehicle in geostationary Earth orbit. (Starfish Space Illustration) Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space says it has raised about $110 million in a funding round that will help the company execute its first satellite servicing missions and scale up operations for more business. The Series B round was…
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Quindar to Provide Automated Mission Control for Starfish Space’s Otter Servicing Missions
Quindar will supply secure, automated mission control infrastructure to Starfish Space for the first three missions of its Otter satellite servicing vehicle, the companies announced. Starfish Space is developing the Otter spacecraft to provide on-orbit life-extension and end-of-life services for satellites, including docking, maneuvering and disposal support. Quindar said its automation-focused platform will enable Starfish…
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Starfish Space wins $54.5M Space Force contract for another satellite servicing vehicle
An artist’s conception shows Starfish Space’s Otter spacecraft in geosynchronous Earth orbit. (Starfish Space Illustration) Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space has been awarded a $54.5 million contract to produce another Otter satellite servicing spacecraft for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command. The deal, announced this week, builds on a $37.5 million Space Systems Command contract…
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Starfish Space wins $52.5M contract to provide satellite disposal service for Space Development Agency
An artist’s conception shows an Otter spacecraft in proximity to another satellite. (Starfish Space Illustration) Starfish Space has secured a $52.5 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency to dispose of military satellites at the end of their operational lives. The Tukwila, Wash.-based startup says it’s the first commercial deal ever struck…
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U.S. Space Agency Awards Starfish Space $52.5 Million Satellite Disposal Contract
The U.S. Space Development Agency has awarded Seattle-based Starfish Space a $52.5 million contract to provide end-of-life disposal services for satellites in the agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, marking what the company described as the first operational contract of its kind for on-orbit satellite disposal. Under the agreement, Starfish Space will use its Otter spacecraft…
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Startups team up to demonstrate satellite rendezvous using Starfish Space’s navigation system
A sign on Impulse Space’s Mira spacecraft in orbit reads “How’s My Orbital Maneuvering?” (Impulse Space Photo) Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space and California-based Impulse Space say they’ve successfully demonstrated an in-space satellite rendezvous during a mission that handed over control of an Impulse Mira spacecraft to Starfish’s guidance and navigation system. The demonstration was code-named…
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SpaceX launches Starfish Space’s second spacecraft for orbital satellite docking test
An artist’s conception shows Otter Pup 2 (at left) approaching its target satellite. (Starfish Space Illustration) Starfish Space’s second Otter Pup spacecraft went into Earth orbit today, marking the first step in what the Seattle-area startup hopes will be a successful demonstration of the vehicle’s ability to dock with other satellites. Otter Pup, which is…