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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Starfish Space raised a $7,000,000 funding round co-led by NFX and MaC Venture Capital with participation from PSL Ventures, Boost VC, Liquid2 Ventures, and Hypothesis.
Starfish Space has opened several positions in the Kent, Washington area to support growth and development.
Starfish Space will use the funding proceeds to accelerate development of its all-electric Otter spacecraft, targeting an initial launch in 2023 or 2024.
Starfish Space raised $7,000,000 to develop space tugs that aim to extend the lives of satellites, move them to different orbits, and remove debris.
Astroscale and Starfish Space are developing servicing businesses aimed at multiple orbits.
Starfish Space, founded in late 2019 by two former Blue Origin and NASA engineers, plans an all-electric tug called Otter as early as 2023.
Starfish aims to launch an all-electric spacecraft called Otter in 2023 or 2024.
Starfish will test its flight software on thrusters developed by Benchmark Space Systems that will be part of a condosat launching in June on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission.
Starfish received $15,000 from the Hyperspace Challenge, a business accelerator run by the Air Force Research Laboratory and CNM Ingenuity for the U.S. Space Force, to develop autonomous technology for space.
Starfish will test its Cephalopod RPOD software later this summer on a TILE 2 electric propulsion thruster from Accion Systems that is also on the condosat.
Starfish received U.S. Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research funding to develop mobility and logistics technology.
Two TILE 2 ion electrospray propulsion systems on Tenzing will test proximity operations maneuvers supported by Starfish Space software.
The demonstration will combine Starfish Space’s CEPHALOPOD software and Accion Systems’ TILE 2 thrusters to perform rendezvous and proximity operations trajectories using low-thrust electric propulsion.