Starfish Space, founded in 2019, is a space technology company focused on on-orbit satellite servicing. They are developing the "Otter" servicer vehicle to provide services like life extension and debris removal for satellites in both Geostationary orbit (GEO) and Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). Starfish Space has contracts with Intelsat and the U.S. Space Force, positioning themselves as a key player in the emerging in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) market.
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High-energy particles from the Starfish Prime explosion formed radiation belts around the Earth.
The Starfish Prime nuclear test was conducted in low Earth orbit above the South Pacific on July 8, 1962.
The pulse from the Starfish Prime explosion caused electrical damage in Hawaii, nearly 1,000 kilometers away.
The Starfish Prime nuclear test in 1962 damaged eight out of 24 satellites in orbit at the time.
Starfish raised $14,000,000 in March in a funding round led by Munich Re’s venture capital arm to develop its technology.
Starfish Space secured $1,800,000 from the U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX technology accelerator to develop its satellite guidance software.
Starfish planned to test Cephalopod on its microwave-sized demonstrator Otter Pup after launching with an SN3 space tug from Launcher on a SpaceX Falcon 9 mission in June.
Starfish plans to follow Otter Pup with full-scale Otter spacecraft that are bigger than a mini-fridge and designed to extend the operational life of a satellite in geostationary orbit once docked.
Starfish Space received $3,000,000 in NSIC funds earlier in 2023.
Otter Pup is a technology demonstration spacecraft developed by Starfish Space that was deployed from Orbiter SN3.
Starfish Space raised $14,000,000 in a Series A funding round led by Munich Re Ventures on 2023-03-08.
Starfish flight tested the rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking software planned for the Otter mission in 2021 during Orbit Fab’s spacecraft LEO refueling demonstration.
Starfish Space has now raised more than $21,000,000 to develop its Otter servicing spacecraft.
Redwire partnered with Starfish Space to provide Redwire’s ARGUS space domain awareness camera for Starfish Space’s Otter Pup satellite docking mission.
Redwire Corporation partnered with Starfish Space to provide Redwire’s ARGUS space domain awareness camera for Starfish Space’s Otter Pup satellite docking mission.
Starfish Space’s Otter Pup satellite will launch in the summer of 2023.
Astro Digital manufactures the Otter Pup satellite bus for Starfish Space.
Starfish Space aims to perform the Otter Pup docking mission at roughly 5% of the cost of any similar mission in history.
Starfish Space received a Phase 1 award under the SpaceWERX Orbital Prime program.
The $7,000,000 funding round will allow Starfish Space to expand its team and accelerate development of technologies for the Otter space tug.