Tukwila's Starfish Space loses contact with its first Otter spacecraft

Starfish Space can no longer receive data from its first Otter spacecraft, ending a $15 million NASA mission to inspect inoperable satellites early, GeekWire reported Tuesday night. The Tukwila, Washington, company said on LinkedIn that Otter 24C could not complete every objective of the Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability mission, known as SSPICY. Starfish and NASA are looking at other Starfish missions to finish the objectives. The Otter was sent into low Earth orbit to approach and inspect other satellites.