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We are proud to announce that our first Otter is going to space! Announced last night at a celebration that brought together hundreds of guests from across the space industry, the launch of our first Otter marks the start of our commercial satellite servicing operations. This is a big moment for Starfish Space. We’ve spent years developing, iterating, and proving out the key technologies required for affordable, available satellite servicing. Now we’re launching Otters, putting our satellite servicing vehicles to work for customers in orbit. Otter is scheduled to launch no earlier than October 2026 aboard the Transporter-18 rideshare mission with SpaceX.

We went to the California desert with a startup building UFO detection systems. They invited a group of psychics who believe they can communicate with UFOs. It got weird. Our full documentary on @eldaeonuap and America's UFO tracking industry is out now 👇 00:00 The American UFO detection industry 01:00 Inside Eldaeon, the company building a UFO detection network 02:05 Nemesis is their $500 personal radar system 02:29 What is passive radar? 03:29 Testing Nemesis at LAX 04:44 Heading out on a psychic mission 05:54 How did David become a UFO engineer? 07:58 Setting up a $25,000 UFO tracking system 09:13 US government support 09:35 How the $25,000 tracking system works 10:29 Meeting the Australian psychics who say they communicate with UFOs 11:24 What is "psionics" 13:36 UFO... or satellite? 15:32 Starting the UFO psychic mission 16:56 A sighting? 17:48 Unusual technical glitches 18:55 An intense psychic connection 20:09 Mission debrief

Today we’re announcing we’ve raised $20M in seed financing led by @QuietCapital , with participation from @GradientVC , @haystackvc and @CompoundVC and other amazing folks to build the verification layer for AI-driven biology. We are also delighted to be welcoming @vqctran who is joining us from @GoogleDeepMind as a co-founder. AI is not going to cure all diseases without a verification substrate - a scalable environment where models can test predictions and learn against living human biology. AI is becoming increasingly capable of generating biological hypotheses, therapeutic candidates and experimental designs. But generating ideas is advancing much faster than our ability to test what those ideas will actually do in human biology. Existing systems force a tradeoff: the most biologically relevant approaches are slow and expensive, while faster in vitro and computational systems often lack the fidelity needed to capture human response. Polyphron’s bet is that tissue is the fastest, cheapest, most parallelizable verification substrate that still contains the biology that matters and we believe the path to biological superintelligence runs through closed-loop interaction with these living and simulated human systems. Thank you to @axios for covering the announcement. Link to our new website in the thread.

My amazing dad, Bill Draper died yesterday. He was the best! We were so lucky to have him with us as long as we did. I know he touched many of your lives.