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 Project Suncatcher, Google's planned AI constellation).
The Starfish satellite was flying a mission for NASA calle...
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