Starfish Space's Otter servicing spacecraft goes silent, ending NASA demo
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Starfish Space's first Otter servicing spacecraft stopped responding about a month after reaching orbit, ending a NASA tech-demo mission.
Starfish Space's first Otter satellite-servicing spacecraft stopped responding, bringing a NASA technology-demonstration mission to an end, according to a news digest dated 11 November 2026. The spacecraft was reported lost roughly a month after it reached orbit. The Otter was designed to demonstrate servicing of other satellites in space, a growing area of the commercial space sector. The digest did not give a cause for the loss of contact.
