想象一下，在2019年10月创立一家旨在改变世界的太空公司。然而几个月后，一场全球大流行让世界陷入停摆。
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.
“我们当时根本不知道世界会给我们带来什么，”曾任职于蓝色起源（Blue Origin）、后联合创立Starfish Space的工程师特雷弗·贝内特（Trevor Bennett）表示，“但这也成了我们故事的一部分，展现了一路走来的韧性。”在蓝色起源工作期间，他近距离见证了亿万富翁们建造巨型火箭并将大量卫星送入轨道的雄心。贝内特与另一位来自蓝色起源的联合创始人奥斯汀·林克（Austin Link）开始思考其中的影响：人类将如何应对轨道上日益增多的卫星？近地轨道能否得到保护？
"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." At Blue Origin, he saw, up close, the ambitions of billionaires to build big rockets and put massive numbers of satellites into orbit. Bennett and his co-founder, another engineer from Blue Origin named Austin Link, began to think about the implications. How would humanity deal with that increased volume of satellites in orbit? Could low-Earth orbit be preserved?