Kayhan Space’s autonomous space traffic coordination platform is better than ever with a suite of new improvements!

[Kayhan Space’s autonomous space traffic coordination platform](https://kayhan.space/products/pathfinder) is better than ever with a suite of new improvements!

# Navigating Pathfinder™ 3.1
[Pathfinder**™** 3.1](https://kayhan.space/products/pathfinder) focuses on enhancing and simplifying key areas of satellite operations, offering teams better visibility of their constellations through more flexible and streamlined workflows.

## Heartbeat Notifications Toggle
Operators asked, and we listened! 

The new **Heartbeat Toggle** enables operators to choose how they receive non-critical CDM notifications, opting to receive reports in batches rather than individually.

![heartbeat.png](https://kayhan-prod-cms-images.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/heartbeat_fc28533684.png)

## Screening App Improvements
**Pathfinder™ Screener** continues to be the ideal tool for satellite operators seeking to lower operational workload by reducing the number of future close approaches caused by maneuvers.

With the new design updates, operators can to submit a Primary <> SP Catalog screening job in little as 5 clicks! The <u>fastest time to submit a screening job in the UI is 8.7 seconds</u> — think you can beat it?

![screener.png](https://kayhan-prod-cms-images.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/screener_f5d7099c30.png)

## Differential Drag Maneuver Profiles
The 3.1 upgrade comes with enhanced capabilities for Pathfinder™ Pro users. Pathfinder™ Pro now offers LEO operators an additional tool for mitigating conjunction events: differential drag maneuver profiles.

- Generate both high and low-drag profile maneuvers for active conjunction events
- Test multiple drag scenarios with one tradespace generation
- Non-propulsive payloads can now participate in Operator to Operator events

Stay ahead of your missions and optimize fleet operations with Pathfinder™ Pro’s full-scope space traffic coordination suite. Let us show you all of these brand new capabilities — [schedule a demo with our team here](https://calendly.com/kayhan-space/45-min)!


# On the Horizon

At Kayhan Space, we’re committed to providing teams operating in orbit with the dynamic and efficient tools that enable them to manage their fleets effectively. 

Stay tuned —  more exciting enhancements to Pathfinder™ are coming soon!

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Introducing: Pathfinder™ 3.1!

US military, space intel veteran, Mark Mueller named VP Government Growth, along with key engineering team hires 

**Broomfield, Colorado – April 3, 2024** — Kayhan Space, the leading space automation and spaceflight safety software provider, today named seasoned military and space intel veteran Mark Mueller as Vice President of Government Growth to lead the company’s development and delivery of Space Domain Awareness (SDA) and Action plus Offensive and Defensive Space Control solutions for a range of classified and unclassified government missions. 

Mueller brings more than 35 years of experience in the U.S. Government Intelligence Community, Air Force, and Space Force, including Chief of Space Intelligence Data for the Defense Intelligence Agency. Most recently, he served as senior advisor to USNORTHCOM and USSPACECOM at Peterson SFB in Colorado, where he directed the deployment of worldwide Command, Control, and Intelligence sharing capabilities with allied nations. He has played pivotal roles throughout his government career in understanding adversarial threats through data and space analytics that ultimately provided key defensive and offensive capabilities in space.

Mueller joins Kayhan Space as the company strategically ramps up next-generation automation and high-performance computing to enable the U.S. and its allies to easily integrate autonomous SDA capabilities and optimized courses of action with their operations.

“Mark is joining Kayhan Space at a pivotal and strategic time, as we intensify our collaborative work with U.S. Government civil and military agencies to advance vital national space and intelligence capabilities,” said Siamak Hesar, Kayhan Space Co-Founder and CEO. “Our highly scalable mission modeling and simulation solutions are already providing government missions with real-time threat assessment and threat mitigation action plans, and we are on track with an aggressive roadmap aimed at providing warfighters with rapid decision-making aid in space.”

Kayhan Space was recently awarded an Office of Space Commerce contract to provide active data curation, as part of a pathfinder effort under the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS). This critical work will help define quality indices to meet necessary accuracy and precision in support of spaceflight safety. Kayhan Space has completed multiple research and development programs for the U.S. Government, including extensive work in support of the U.S. Space Force and as a participant in Cohort 2 in the SDA Tools, Applications, and Processing (TAP) lab in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The objective of this effort is to demonstrate a complete end-to-end capability supporting the defense of critical National Security space assets.

“I’m honored to join the Kayhan Space executive team at such a critical time, as the U.S. Government looks to accelerate its space domain awareness and national security initiatives with proven autonomous capabilities from trusted commercial partners,” explained Mark Mueller, Vice President of Government Growth for Kayhan Space. “Kayhan Space has built its spaceflight automation solutions with integration across SDA in mind, and we have successfully demonstrated running our core software platforms in classified environments and are ready and well-positioned to meet mission-critical government requirements in space.”

Kayhan Space also announced other key hires across the team, including Brandon DeWick as Director of Engineering, a role focused on the development of world-class software solutions for some of the most complex challenges in space.

“I’m thrilled to lead the Kayhan Space engineering team, as we empower our commercial and government customers, inundated with complex operational challenges, to concentrate on their important missions. We help them take on spaceflight safety requirements seamlessly and effectively with simplified platforms,” said DeWick, who has led software system development for Maxar, Digital Globe, and Mangata Networks.

Kayhan’s Pathfinder space traffic coordination (STC) platform is a scalable and autonomous solution that collects and fuses space object data from various sources, leverages precise orbit prediction algorithms to determine upcoming conjunction events with high accuracy. The solution also automatically alerts operators of potential threats with actionable and ready-to-execute maneuver plans. 

### The Origins of Kayhan Space
Kayhan Space was founded in the U.S. in 2019 when CEO Siamak Hesar and CTO Araz Feyzi, who are longtime friends, and immigrants celebrating over a decade as naturalized U.S. citizens, saw a growing need for the modernization of the space infrastructure and space traffic coordination in congested space.

Hesar, who holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder, brings a wealth of aerospace experience, including his time supporting NASA and JPL missions. Feyzi’s professional focus has long been on computers and software. Prior to Kayhan Space, he was a co-founder of Syfer, an internet security company. 

The two combined their passions for the U.S. leadership, space, and software to form what has quickly become the world’s leading space situational awareness and automation company. Kayhan Space is dedicated to ensuring that the U.S. continues to lead the world in space capabilities and the commercial space sector continues to grow by streamlining and simplifying longstanding manual engineering processes with modern automation technologies.

**For media inquiries, contact:**

Nikki Bean  
Kayhan Space  
720.312.4497  
[nikki.bean@kayhan.space](mailto:nikki.bean@kayhan.space)

### About Kayhan Space
Kayhan Space Corp. is making spaceflight safer with spaceflight safety software-as-a-service that enables satellite and mission operators to leverage precision data and real-time collaboration capabilities across the industry to anticipate and avoid conjunction events in space. Kayhan’s autonomous tools allow operators to coordinate safe avoidance maneuvers for all spacecraft and operators’ missions by reducing response time to collision events by more than 95%. The risk of a catastrophic collision in orbit is rapidly increasing as the number of satellites bound for space rises ten-fold over the next decade. Kayhan’s next-gen spaceflight safety platform allows operators to run missions with confidence in increasingly busy but important orbits around the Earth. For more information, visit [www.kayhan.space](https://www.kayhan.space).


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Kayhan Space Strengthens Executive Team Amid Rising Government Demand for Improved Space Domain Awareness

Makes autonomous collision mitigation accessible to university missions and top-of-mind among future space leaders

Broomfield, Colorado – March 19, 2024 – Kayhan Space, the leading space analytics and spaceflight safety software provider, today unveiled its new Pathfinder Classroom space traffic coordination (STC) platform, which makes autonomous conjunction assessment and collision mitigation easily accessible to university space programs operating missions in increasingly congested orbits. 

Space situational awareness solutions are often an afterthought for most active university space programs throughout the U.S. and the world, primarily because they can be cost-prohibitive for academia. Kayhan Space’s Pathfinder Classroom solves both the priority and expense challenges facing university space operations by offering the latest subscription-based space traffic coordination services, currently used by leading satellite and mission operators, at a fraction of the cost.

Universities can utilize Pathfinder Classroom to assess the real-time safety and threat status of their CubeSat missions automatically and seamlessly implement the mitigation system to actively generate collision avoidance measures and maneuvers.

“The primary objective of our Pathfinder Classroom platform is to keep space safe for everyone by making cutting-edge space traffic management services affordable and top-of-mind among university space programs and students who represent the next generation of space industry leaders,” explained Siamak Hesar, Kayhan Space co-founder and CEO. 

The new Kayhan Space Pathfinder Classroom STC solution is inspired by Hesar’s firsthand experience as a student in the University of Southern California’s Astronautics Engineering program. “Space situational awareness is a must-have game changer capability for every commercial, government, and university mission operating in congested orbits. University programs that launch without the ability to effectively assess collision risks on orbit pose a real threat to mission-critical assets in space.”

Kayhan Space collaborated closely with commercial and government space organizations to design and develop Pathfinder Classroom. Insights from across the industry played an instrumental role in outlining the growing need for space traffic coordination capabilities among university space programs, which rely on real-life collaborations for space safety guidance.

“Kayhan Space has opened the door to ensuring our space program is fully capable of flying our satellite missions safely and securely in even the most popular and congested orbits in space,” said David Barnhart, Director of the University of Southern California Space Engineering Research Center. “Our students are privileged to have access to the same space traffic coordination software that is helping to protect some of the most important missions run by many of the largest operators in space today. Providing this as a service to university space programs not only helps predict best orbits prior to launch but instills the importance of assessing the space environment around Earth, as students enter the industry and government to lead future missions.”



Kayhan’s Pathfinder space traffic coordination platform is a scalable and autonomous solution that collects and fuses space object data from various sources, and leverages precise orbit prediction algorithms to determine upcoming conjunction events with high accuracy. The solution also automatically alerts operators of potential threats with actionable and ready-to-execute maneuver plans. 
The Origins of Kayhan Space
Kayhan Space was founded in the U.S. in 2019 when CEO Siamak Hesar and CTO Araz Feyzi, who are longtime friends, and immigrants celebrating over a decade as naturalized U.S. citizens, saw a growing need for the modernization of the space infrastructure and space traffic coordination in congested space.

Hesar, who holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder, brings a wealth of aerospace experience, including his time supporting NASA and JPL missions. Feyzi’s professional focus has long been on computers and software. Prior to Kayhan Space, he was a co-founder of Syfer, an internet security company.

The two combined their passions in space and software to form what has quickly become the world’s leading space situational awareness and automation company. Kayhan Space is dedicated to ensuring that the U.S. continues to lead the world in space capabilities and the commercial space sector continues to grow by streamlining and simplifying longstanding manual engineering processes with modern automation technologies.

For media inquiries, contact:

Nikki Bean  
Kayhan Space  
720-312-4497  
[nikki.bean@kayhan.space](mailto:nikki.bean@kayhan.space)

About Kayhan Space
Kayhan Space Corp. is making spaceflight safer with spaceflight safety software-as-a-service that enables satellite and mission operators to leverage precision data and real-time collaboration capabilities across the industry to anticipate and avoid conjunction events in space. Kayhan’s autonomous tools allow operators to coordinate safe avoidance maneuvers for all spacecraft and operators’ missions by reducing response time to collision events by more than 95%. The risk of a catastrophic collision in orbit is rapidly increasing as the number of satellites bound for space rises ten-fold over the next decade. Kayhan’s next-gen spaceflight safety platform allows operators to run missions with confidence in increasingly busy but important orbits around the Earth. For more information, visit [www.kayhan.space](https://kayhan.space).


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Kayhan Space Unveils Pathfinder Classroom - Space Traffic Coordination for Universities

Funding to accelerate Pathfinder 3.0 network expansion and scale product line, team, and market presence

Lafayette, Colorado/Maui, Hawaii - September 19, 2023 - Kayhan Space, the leading provider of high-performance software and solutions for space mission operations, today announced it has raised $7 million in an oversubscribed seed extension round to accelerate commercial delivery of the industry's first autonomous space traffic coordination (STC) framework, at the core of its all-new Pathfinder™ 3.0 spaceflight safety platform.

Venture capital firms Space Capital and EVE Atlas have funded the extension round, following in­ depth reviews of the Kayhan Space technology roadmap and aggressive delivery plans for current and new generations of products and services, including Pathfinder 3.0, for both commercial and government markets. Kayhan Space will also leverage new funding to open an office in Washington, DC and scale its U.S.-based team of 20 employees to more than 30, adding executives and specialists in key roles ranging from business development to engineering and marketing.

Pathfinder 3.0 provides major new features that combine conjunction risk assessment, optimized collision avoidance maneuver planning, and for the first time, the ability to autonomously pre­ coordinate maneuver responsibility and event mitigation status at the machine-to-machine level using the Space Safety Coalition (SSC) Best Practices for the Sustainability of Space Operations. Pathfinder 3.0 is the first commercially available software platform that incorporates the SSC's Rules of the Road (RotR) as optional presets for establishing maneuver responsibility, as well as other best practices and recommendations, into a mature software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that owner­ operators can deploy and automate in their day-to-day satellite operations.

Operators managing increasingly complex constellations in congested orbits can sign up for Kayhan's tiered Pathfinder offerings, including the free Pathfinder Essentials service and the subscription-based Pathfinder Pro, to seamlessly assess fleet status and threats and automatically implement real-time collision avoidance measures. A Pathfinder 3.0 beta release will be available this Fall, with its new space traffic auto-coordination features available to all satellite operators free of charge in the Pathfinder Essentials tier.


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Introducing: Pathfinder™ 3.1!

Kayhan Space Strengthens Executive Team Amid Rising Government Demand for Improved Space Domain Awareness

Kayhan Space Unveils Pathfinder Classroom - Space Traffic Coordination for Universities

Kayhan Space Raises $7 million, Unveils First-Ever Autonomous Space Traffic Coordination Service