After seven years, a spacecraft company is releasing its Otters into the wild

Powered by H2O After seven years, a spacecraft company is releasing its Otters into the wild “There is always a tension that comes with seeing the first of anything fly.”

23 Trevor Bennett is proud of the Otter spacecraft. Credit: Starfish Space Trevor Bennett is proud of the Otter spacecraft. Credit: Starfish Space Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Imagine starting a space company in October 2019 with the aim of changing the world. Then, a few months later, a global pandemic shuts the world down.

“Little did we know what the world had in store for us,” said Trevor Bennett, an engineer who co-founded Starfish Space after a few years at Blue Origin. “But that’s kind of become part of our story, showing some resilience along the way.”