Satellite servicing and mental health screening startups raise cash | Zulily layoffs 

Starfish Space, a Seattle-area startup founded by two veterans of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, raised $14 million to support plans to develop spacecraft capable of hooking up with bigger satellites to boost their orbits — or safely dispose of them.

• The capability to rendezvous and dock with other satellites — and guide them where they need to go — will become more important as companies including SpaceX, Amazon and OneWeb fill out their broadband satellite mega-constellations. Read more. 

In other space news:

• Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space won the go-ahead to take over the Florida launch complex where John Glenn began the trip that made him the first American in orbit in 1962. Read more. 

• Relativity Space, the startup founded in Seattle, is launching the first 3D-printed rocket later today — watch it here, and check back on GeekWire.com for updates.  

More Seattle startup funding news: 

• Aiberry raised $8 million for its AI-powered software that analyzes audio, visual, and language from a short conversation to screen for mental health conditions. Read more. 

“It’s war. It’s real. Real people die,” said Sergei Dreizin, Akvelon co-founder and CEO. “It makes it very, very real. For being a few thousand miles away, it comes home.”

• Bellevue, Wash.-based software engineering company Akvelon is mourning the loss of a 29-year-old colleague, Yana Rykhlitska, who was killed March 3 in a mortar attack on the vehicle she was traveling in near Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, while serving as a paramedic in the 93rd Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. Rykhlitska, who would have turned 30 years old in a few weeks, was buried today. Read more.

Zulily laid off corporate employees for the second time in a year as the Seattle-based online retailer and its parent company Qurate navigate declining revenue.

• Zulily’s revenue dropped 28% to $254 million in the fourth quarter due to lower unit volume, reduced shipping rates, and lower site traffic. Read more.

As Microsoft hosts its annual Accessibility Summit today, we spoke with the company’s accessibility chief about the disability divide, Bing’s AI chatbot as a helpful tool, and more.

• Jenny Lay-Flurrie (above) said the level of interest and passion around the summit is a good indicator of the need for the event. Read more.

• That’s how Leslie Feinzaig described her column in Fast Company about International Women’s Day. The founder of Seattle investment firm Graham & Walker asks for “no more female founder takedowns.”

A giant sailing yacht linked to Jeff Bezos was spotted, and a new book reflects the Amazon founder’s vision for building a space station beyond the moon. 

• The triple-masted vessel, now apparently named Koru, has been linked to Bezos for a few years and is now undergoing sea trials. Read more.  

• If Bezos needs a blueprint for building a space station beyond the moon with ore from an asteroid, he just might want to start with “Critical Mass,” a newly published sci-fi novel by Daniel Suarez. Read more. 

Toilets, toilets, toilets!

• LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is very excited about the number of places to go to the bathroom at his team’s new arena.