Kayhan Space merged its two most popular products in a new offering launched today, dubbed the Satcat Product Suite.
The new system combines Satcat’s publicly available, real-time space situational awareness data with Pathfinder’s space traffic coordination tools, offering satellite operators a single platform to manage their sats—and avoid running into one another.
Same same, but different: The offering introduces new features that the company hopes will make it easier for satellite operators to run their own missions and coordinate collision avoidance maneuvers with their neighbors.
- Business and operator directory: The database of satellite operators, manufacturers, agencies, and service providers makes it easier for users to connect with one another in the event of a predicted collision. The platform centrally houses publicly available information, making it useful to researchers and investors as well.
- Precise orbit determination: With data from multiple sources and advanced modeling capabilities, users can map the trajectories of their satellites and constellations more precisely and affordably.
Kayhan’s goal for the new product is to utilize public and private data to make traffic on the orbital freeways more transparent. Companies are able to upload their ephemeris data, which shows the position of sats over time, and select when they would share with other users, such as when a potential collision is predicted.
AI-tomatic: As the number of satellites in orbit continues its hockey stick growth, instances of near misses are becoming more common, so much so that manually coordinating collision avoidance maneuvers is becoming a full-time job.
With one the largest repositories of space object information—tracking 60,000+ objects in orbit, including data on 90% of operational sats, according to Kayhan CTO Araz Feyzi—Kayhan’s AI and machine learning tools can easily automate many operations.
The tool will be able to recommend the most effective ways for satellite operators to stay out of one another’s way, ensuring that the space industry can grow despite the traffic.
