{"id":54656,"date":"2022-09-29T01:53:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kayhan-space-to-work-with-astroscale-us-and-ut-austin-on-spacewerx-orbital-prime-contract\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T01:53:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:53:30","slug":"kayhan-space-to-work-with-astroscale-us-and-ut-austin-on-spacewerx-orbital-prime-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kayhan-space-to-work-with-astroscale-us-and-ut-austin-on-spacewerx-orbital-prime-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayhan Space to Work with Astroscale US and UT-Austin on SpaceWERX Orbital Prime Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kayhan Space<\/strong>, along with <strong>Astroscale U.S.<\/strong> and <strong>UT-Austin<\/strong> have been awarded a <strong>U.S. Space Force<\/strong> contract to develop a solution that will enable in-space service, assembly, and manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>The contract is part of the SpaceWERX Orbital Prime program, which is focused on accelerating capabilities related on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (OSAM). SpaceWERX is the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force and part of AFWERX.<\/p>\n<p>Kayhan Space\u2019s Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase 1 contract is to investigate how the Kayhan Proxima solution will enable in-space service assembly and manufacturing (ISAM) capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>During Phase 1, Kayhan Space will work with Astroscale U.S. engineers and UT-Austin spaceflight researchers and students to deliver a rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) management solution. A feasibility study of the RPO management platform will be delivered early next year, while a prototype and Phase 2 demonstration mission is planned for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKayhan Space is already empowering leading satellite operators to leverage real-time conjunction assessment and collision avoidance with Kayhan Pathfinder to help hundreds of spacecraft steer clear of pile ups in popular orbits,\u201d said Siamak Hesar, Kayhan Space CEO and co-founder. \u201cAnd now we\u2019re building on that proven expertise with our Kayhan Proxima solution, in collaboration with Astroscale U.S. and UT-Austin, to ultimately bring spacecraft close together safely to drive a sustainable space economy and defense with autonomous RPO.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SpaceWerx awarded 125 contracts worth $250,000 each under the Orbital Prime program. Other awardees include Tangram Flex, ThinkOrbital, and Epsilon3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kayhan Space, along with Astroscale U.S. and UT-Austin have been awarded a U.S. Space Force contract to develop a solution that will enable in-space service, assembly, and manufacturing. The contract is part of the SpaceWERX Orbital Prime program, which is focused on accelerating capabilities related on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (OSAM). SpaceWERX is the innovation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}