Yehia Abdul-Aziz

Founder and CEO

Yehia Abdul-Aziz is Founder and CEO of ATON Space Technology, a Riyadh-based company specialising in space situational awareness and space traffic management. He is a full professor of Space Flight Dynamics and Control at the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG) in Egypt, with more than 25 years of experience in the space industry, including space surveillance and tracking, space debris and debris removal. He headed the Space Research Laboratory at NRIAG from 2016 to 2019, directing research and development and corporate strategic planning for space technology, and founded Egypt's first Optical Satellite Tracking Station there in March 2021. ATON Space Technology graduated from the first Space Tech Incubator in Saudi Arabia in November 2024 and was certified by the Technology Sandbox of the Communications, Space and Technology Commission in February 2025.