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Austin Link, originally from Iowa, earned a B.S. in physics from Stanford and an M.S. in aerospace engineering from Purdue. He worked on the THAAD missile-defense system at Lockheed Martin before joining Blue Origin, where he contributed to a variety of launch vehicles and engines. There he met Trevor Bennett, and in 2019 the two co-founded Starfish Space in Tukwila, Washington to make satellite servicing affordable and routine. As CEO, Link has led the development of the autonomous Otter servicing vehicle and the company's growth through a $110 million-plus Series B in April 2026.
Trevor Bennett holds a PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder, where his research focused on spacecraft proximity operations, and was an NSTRF Fellow who conducted satellite mission-design work at NASA's JPL and Goddard centers. He worked on the New Glenn rocket at Blue Origin, where he met Austin Link. In 2019 the pair co-founded Starfish Space to build autonomous satellite-servicing spacecraft, and as CTO, Bennett leads the technology behind the Otter vehicle and its Nautilus electrostatic capture mechanism, which is designed to dock with satellites never built to be serviced.
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A low-cost, autonomous satellite-servicing vehicle designed to rendezvous with, dock to, and maneuver client satellites for life extension, relocation, inspection, and end-of-life disposal. Otter uses electric propulsion and Starfish's autonomous guidance software to approach targets without ground-in-the-loop control. The first operational Otters are contracted by Intelsat and the U.S. Space Force and are slated to reach geostationary orbit in 2026, where they will provide servicing to client satellites, with production scaling to support a pipeline of contracted missions.
Otter's docking end effector, which uses electrostatic adhesion to grip flat surfaces on a target spacecraft, allowing capture of satellites that lack any purpose-built docking fixture. This is the key to servicing the existing on-orbit fleet, the vast majority of which was never designed to be approached or grabbed. Nautilus was demonstrated on the Otter Pup mission, and its ability to attach to unprepared satellites underpins Starfish's pursuit of the first commercial docking with a satellite not built for servicing.
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