Starfish Space loses contact with 1st 'Otter' servicing spacecraft, ending NASA tech-demo mission
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Starfish Space's first Otter has died, just a month after it reached the final frontier.The Seattle startup announced on Tuesday (Nov. 3) that its Otter 24C satellite suffered a glitch in low Earth orbit (LEO) and is not recoverable.The anomaly killed an ambitious mission in the cradle, as Otter 24C was still in the commissioning phase.Otter 24C launched Oct. 1 on SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission, a rideshare flight that carried a total of 130 payloads to LEO (including a prototype satellite for
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