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Kayhan targets investors, insurers with expanded orbital intelligence platform

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Kayhan targets investors, insurers with expanded orbital intelligence platform

Kayhan Space today unveiled an expanded orbital intelligence platform and is positioning the new service toward investors and insurers as a way to turn space data into business insight, the company said in a March 20, 2026 update. The offering, named Satcat Terminal, builds on Kayhan’s existing space traffic data used by satellite operators and reframes it with analytics and user interfaces familiar to financial and risk professionals. The announcement comes as capital markets show growing interest in the space sector and insurance firms seek to quantify exposure tied to an increasingly crowded orbital environment.

Satcat Terminal draws on Kayhan’s comprehensive catalog of more than 36,000 tracked objects in Earth orbit, including over 11,000 satellites and 15,000 high‑risk debris objects, and layers AI‑driven tools to enable real‑time insight for non‑technical users. The platform’s design incorporates natural‑language queries and real‑time close‑approach data so that investors can assess constellation growth trends or operational anomalies and insurers can monitor risk variables without specialist spaceflight training. This expanded intelligence service leverages the same underlying data infrastructure that supports Kayhan’s space situational awareness and traffic coordination products for government and commercial operators, aiming to democratise access to orbital insights for broader market segments.

By opening its orbital dataset to financial and risk communities, Kayhan is tapping into a segment of the space economy where understanding on‑orbit behaviour and asset health increasingly influences investment decisions and insurance underwriting. The move reflects broader industry momentum toward treating space assets as mainstream components of global capital markets and enterprise risk portfolios, as orbital congestion and debris concerns intensify. Satcat Terminal’s launch could help bridge the gap between operational space data and financial‑sector needs, supporting more informed decision‑making across the expanding commercial and institutional stakeholder base.

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