The space industry tracks what goes up with increasing precision. What comes back down is a different problem.
Araz Feyzi is the Co-Founder and CTO of Kayhan Space, a Colorado-based company building autonomous spaceflight safety and space traffic coordination tools for commercial and government satellite operators. He co-founded the company with CEO Siamak Hesar after observing that even satellite missions operating under the same NASA umbrella struggled to coordinate basic collision avoidance. Feyzi’s background spans more than 15 years in technology and analytics, including an early role at Duetto, a B2B SaaS startup, and the co-founding of Syfer, a cybersecurity company. At Kayhan Space, he leads the engineering team that builds the data infrastructure underlying the company’s spaceflight safety products.
Kayhan Space’s flagship product is the Satcat Product Suite, launched in February 2025 as the industry’s first unified platform combining real-time space situational awareness data with autonomous space traffic coordination tools. The system tracks more than 60,000 objects in Earth orbit and delivers automated collision warnings, maneuver recommendations, and operator-to-operator coordination capabilities. The company says its automation reduces operator response time by more than 95 percent.
The platform serves a market that is rapidly shifting from government-provided to commercially delivered safety data. In January 2026, SatNews examined how the commercialization of space safety data is forcing operators to budget for services they previously received free from the U.S. government. A month later, SpaceX unveiled its own Stargaze system for space traffic management, signaling that the largest constellation operator sees SSA as a competitive capability rather than a shared utility.
Kayhan Space operates at the intersection of both trends. The company was selected as a data quality monitor for the Office of Space Commerce’s TraCSS program, the federal system designed to replace the Department of Defense’s legacy conjunction screening services for commercial operators. Kayhan also holds contracts with the Department of Defense and NASA. In 2025, the Satcat platform earned a Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards honoree designation, and the company rolled out its Satcat Business Directory, the first comprehensive database of verified satellite operators and service providers.
At SmallSat Europe, Feyzi delivers a Tech Brief titled “Data Points for Reentry.”
The orbital environment is adding satellites faster than operators can track them, in orbit or on the way back down. Feyzi’s platform is built on the premise that the data has to work in both directions.
