Starfish Space launched the Otter Pup demonstration mission in June 2023.
Starfish Space launched a demonstration Otter Pup mission in low Earth orbit in 2023, but the mission suffered an anomaly and was not successfully completed.
Redwire Space provided the camera system used by Otter Pup to capture images of ION-SCV006.
LeoLabs provided on-orbit state data support for the Otter Pup–ION-SCV006 rendezvous operation.
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.
Otter Pup is a technology demonstration spacecraft developed by Starfish Space that was deployed from Orbiter SN3.
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.
Launcher provides the Orbiter OTV that will both deliver Otter Pup to its initial altitude and serve as the docking target.
Exotrail provides the electric propulsion thruster for the Otter Pup mission.
Starfish Space’s Otter Pup satellite will launch in the summer of 2023.
The full Otter Pup satellite is scheduled to be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of the Transporter 8 mission expected in June 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.