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Today I learned that Sputnik may also be translated “spouse”
buddy.........., that’s my wife
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Alex Coultrup, M.S. ✨
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Alex Coultrup, M.S. ✨
@AlexCoultrup
Sci-Fi enjoyer | @starfishspace | Poyekhali! | M.S. Space Stuff | Policy nerd | @mattfellowship | opinions mine | 🚀🌹🌈 she/her
D.C. metro area Katılım Ocak 2012
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Alex Coultrup, M.S. ✨ retweetledi
The founder journey at Space Symposium:
Year 1) Tickets are too expensive - I am just hanging around the grounds
Year 2) I’ll be there all the week
Year 3) I’ll be there Tuesday afternoon for some meetings
Year 4) Too much going on for me to go, but my BD team will be there
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Getting ready for a little lunar road trip!
cait@RockettLord
@reflectorbital come get your mans
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Starfish Space@StarfishSpace
Big news: we just closed a $100M+ Series B. This funding will go toward building and operating our Otter missions, scaling to meet growing customer demand, and expanding our team. We've had a lot to celebrate lately, from missions like Remora and Otter Pup 2 to new contracts with great customers like SDA and the Space Force. And we're just getting started. Our first full Otter mission is on track to fly later this year. Read our full press release: starfishspace.com/press-release/… We’d like to thank our investors for helping us build the future of infrastructure in space. @p72vc, @ShieldCapVC, @IndustriousVC, @nightdragon
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It’s a great day to maximize constellation value 🛰️🤝🛰️
Starfish Space@StarfishSpace
We’re proud to share that Starfish has been awarded the first end-of-life disposal contract for a low Earth orbit satellite constellation in history. This $52.5M contract from the Space Development Agency (@SemperCitiusSDA) allows us to build, launch and operate an Otter to provide end of life services for the SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, maximizing the capabilities the constellation can deliver for the warfighter. Learn more about this historic mission here: starfishspace.com/press-release/…
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Highly-maneuverable, extremely photogenic.
Take a look at what our LEO Express 2 Mira saw while closing in on the LEO Express 1 Mira – on our fully autonomous RPO mission with @StarfishSpace
Starfish’s software enabled Mira to perform close-proximity maneuvers, with a single camera and closed-loop GNC software guiding our spacecraft within ~1250 meters of one another in LEO.
Mira executed the approach after completing its primary delivery objectives, validating its ability to perform responsive, high-precision RPO on orbit.
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Starfish Space@StarfishSpace
We’re not quite done celebrating our Remora mission! Here’s a look at what we saw through the eyes of our @Trl11_Inc camera system, while our Starfish software autonomously guided @GoToImpulse's LEO Express 2 Mira spacecraft through a close rendezvous with the LEO Express 1 Mira.
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anyone can have good tech, a great team, grand vision, etc. etc. Who can execute well? Who can execute well, on schedule? Who can execute well, on schedule, over & over & over? At the right price point, THAT is what can drive commercial adoption & lasting change
Michael Madrid@buildingMadrid
whenever we get asked about competition at Starfish Space (which is a reasonable question), this is what I think: yes there are a handful of other companies working on satellite servicing (GEO life extension, LEO end-of-life disposal, etc)… and they have really talented people tackling these problems, too! but the real competition any of us face is actually: the status quo. right now, people don’t service their satellites. the choice that’s made time and again is to just throw away the satellite when it’s used up. that’s how humans have operated for 68 years. there weren’t really any other choices, and so even today the easiest thing for a customer to do is just… *not* service their satellite. that’s what we’re (all) really competing against. we have to launch tech that works and 1) do it at a price that closes business cases, 2) do it on a schedule that is relevant for customer satellites. we have to be better than the status quo, and we have to drive behavior change at scale in the industry.
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We love you @TED_ED; LMK if you’d like further updates on our @StarfishSpace Otter Pup mission to dock with a satellite in space, demonstrating how we can clean up space junk in the future!
Michael Madrid@buildingMadrid
Otter Pup showing up in new TED videos as a surprise to us, calling it a cultural victory
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It is once again Sputnik day!
Alex Coultrup, M.S. ✨@AlexCoultrup
Happy Sputnik day! OTD in 1957, our first orbiting “companion” launched from Baikonur 🚀
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Gosh I love baseball and space people and watching the home team win and Seattle and pepperoni pizza and summertime
Michael Madrid@buildingMadrid
2nd annual Seattle Spaceball last night
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@buildingMadrid i love typing the exact same company information in slightly different formats into slightly different portals over & over when i could be doing meaningful work, even though the information already exists elsewhere in NASA's databases 🥰 fav part of my job for sure
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<registering for NASA's 3rd+ different portal this week>
"Jared Isaacman would never"
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Alex Coultrup, M.S. ✨ retweetledi
Otter Pup 2 is on orbit and making progress towards its mission to attempt docking with another satellite. There are multiple milestones in this journey, some of which could take months to accomplish:
– Establish communications
– Complete commissioning
– Conduct long range rendezvous
– Operate in close proximity to client
– Attempt docking
We established radio communications with the satellite shortly after launch and it is operating nominally. Next up: commissioning Otter Pup 2 to ensure its hardware and software is working as expected.
Follow along as Otter Pup 2 attempts to dock with another satellite, bringing us closer to an interactive future in orbit.
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Alex Coultrup, M.S. ✨ retweetledi
Otter Pup 2 separation confirmed - thanks for the ride, @SpaceX! 👋
Launch is an exciting milestone for Otter Pup 2, placing the satellite into low Earth orbit so it can work towards its mission: docking with another satellite and validating core Starfish technologies along the way.
If successful in these goals, Otter Pup 2 will bring us closer to an interactive future in orbit, shifting the paradigm for what humanity can accomplish as we venture out into the universe.
Stay tuned for more updates during the early phases of the Otter Pup 2 mission!
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Otter Pup 2 is now free-flying in space! 🧡
Starfish Space@StarfishSpace
We are excited to unveil Otter Pup 2! This mission will attempt the first-ever docking with a commercial satellite in low Earth orbit. Building on the heritage of our Otter Pup 1 mission, Otter Pup 2 will conduct rendezvous, proximity operations, and ultimately attempt docking with an unprepared client satellite in LEO. If successful, Otter Pup 2 won’t just make history - it will bring us closer to an interactive future in orbit, shifting the paradigm for what humanity can accomplish as we venture out into the universe. In the coming months, we’ll be sharing more about the mission, and how it helps Starfish accomplish our broader goals. Check out the video below for a sneak peak, and read our full press release for more details. Otter Pup 2 Press Release: starfishspace.com/press-release/…
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Alex Coultrup, M.S. ✨ retweetledi
Thanks for two rides now, B1071!
SpaceX@SpaceX
Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship
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