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Starfish Space loses contact with 1st 'Otter' servicing spacecraft, ending NASA tech-demo mission
Why it’s here: The item covers the loss of a NASA-funded satellite servicing tech-demo (SSPICY) under a NASA ISAM program, which touches space policy and federal funding, though the core is a mission anomaly with limited explicit policy content.
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6d agoSpace.comStarfish Space loses contact with 1st 'Otter' servicing spacecraft, ending NASA tech-demo missionStarfish Space's first Otter servicing spacecraft, Otter 24C, was declared unrecoverable after a fault-protection error by Astro Digital's bus turned off its radio during commissioning of NASA's SSPICY tech-demo mission.1 outletSpaceGovernment-funded on-orbit servicing and inspection demonstrations1 linked
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