Priya Venkataraman

Priya Venkataraman is Director of Flight Operations, based at Kepler Yards on L5 Lagrange Station. She is responsible for every Halcyon test flight, delivery flight and customer acceptance mission, more than 600 flights a year.

Priya planned the maiden voyage of the Odyssey Deep Explorer to Neptune and coordinated the delivery flights of the first Halcyon Starliner fleet. She now leads mission planning for the Eidolon Lightsail Prototype's first outer-system trial toward Neptune.

Priya started as a flight dynamics analyst at Shackleton Base and spent years planning cargo routes for the Atlas Heavy Freighter. She is known for meticulous mission planning, calm under pressure, and a habit of personally walking every crew through the plan before a first flight. She also leads Halcyon's flight operations safety reviews.