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Starfish Loses Contact with Otter, Cutting SSPICY Short
Why it’s here: A NASA-funded $15M in-space debris inspection mission failed, which bears on the emerging commercial debris-removal policy landscape, and the piece ties to an SDA deorbit contract and NASA's ISAM program.
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11d agoPayloadStarfish Loses Contact with Otter, Cutting SSPICY ShortStarfish Space's Otter 24C has been lost after a bus fault disabled its radio, ending NASA's $15M SSPICY debris-inspection mission one month after launch.1 outletSpaceGovernment-funded on-orbit servicing and inspection demonstrations4 linked
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