SIGHT

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Name: SIGHT
Brand: Katalyst Space Technologies
Availability: InStock

SIGHT upgrades in-space satellites with space domain awareness capabilities for collision avoidance.

How it works

Real-time SDA coverage

Building a satellite is risky, capital intensive, and can take decades. Satellite designs are locked years before launch, which forces companies to make decisions too early, without the right information. Because of long design and build cycles, businesses and governments have to live with the consequences of decisions they made years ago.

Retrofit onto existing satellites

The SIGHT upgrade has its own independent power source and communications. It also features on board data processing. These features reduce dependency on the host satellite, minimizing potential disruptions.

Enable continuous monitoring of resident space objects (RSOs)

Protect high value satellites by managing the risk of orbital encounters

What you can do

SIGHT | UPGRADED DETECTION AND AVOIDANCE

With the SIGHT upgrade, unprepared satellites can be equipped with object detection and avoidance capabilities.

01: Identify orbital hazards

Enable continuous monitoring of resident space objects (RSOs).

02: Avoid collisions

Protect high value satellites by managing the risk of orbital encounters.

03: Eliminate blind spots

Monitor nearby activity and track objects that might otherwise go undetected.

Deployment

Fast and flexible

With tactically responsive operations becoming the standard, how you deploy an upgrade is just as important as how you build it. That's why we've optimized both our technology and our business model to provide fast, flexible access to upgrades across different orbits.

Staged on OTVs

Access Katalyst upgrades when you need them via ESPAStar, Vigoride OTV, or other Orbital Transfer Vehicles.

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Post launch retrofits

Katalyst upgrades can be installed in space by multiple robotic servicers.

Satellite with solar panels and various antennas floating in black space.

Pre launch installation

Katalyst upgrades can be installed on high value assets (HVA) before they are launched.

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Attachment systems for upgrading unprepared satellites

Should manufacturers prepare satellites for attachments first? Or should they wait for plug and play interfaces? With Katalyst's retrofit attachment system, even unprepared satellites can become a platform for upgrades.

Structural Clamping System

Utilizes Launch Adaptor Ring for secure attachment

Compatible with robotic services

Compatible with unprepared client spacecraft

“Universal” Attachment System

Future prepared interfaces on host vehicles

Power, data, communications sharing with upgrades

Increased performance and ease of integration

The future of upgrades in space

By 2028, Katalyst will offer a network of distributed and autonomous spacecraft modules that will be fully reconfigurable across LEO, GEO, and Lunar domains.

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