Starfish Space, founded in 2019 by former Blue Origin engineers Trevor Bennett and Austin Link, is launching its first Otter spacecraft this fall to address orbital debris and satellite management. The spacecraft will conduct NASA-funded inspection missions of defunct satellites in orbit, with NASA paying $15 million for the demonstration mission called SSPICY.
Jeff Bezos's planned $50 million wedding in Venice sparked outrage among residents struggling with housing affordability and climate impacts, galvanizing an antifascist activist movement called 'No Space for Bezos' that protested his vision of colonizing space to escape Earth's ecological limits.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, a workhorse for the commercial space industry, is being phased out from the commercial launch market as the company redirects capacity to its Starlink constellation. Industry executives gathered at the World Space Business Week conference in Paris expressed concern about securing alternative launch providers, as SpaceX has reportedly stopped accepting rideshare reservations beyond late 2028 or early 2029 and made it effectively impossible to book Falcon 9 launches for commercial missions.