Company:Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems

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Tyvak designs, builds and provides nanosatellite and CubeSat space vehicle products and services for government and commercial customers. Tyvak is based in Irvine, California.

In 2011 Jordi Puig-Suari, coinventor of the CubeSat design, and Scott MacGillivray, former manager of nanosatellite programs for Boeing Phantom Works, established Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems in San Luis Obispo, California, to sell miniature avionics packages for small satellites, with the goal to increase the volume available for payloads.[1]

On November 18, 2019 Tyvak was one of five companies selected to be eligible to bid for the Commercial Lunar Payload Services[2]


References

  1. Werner, Deborah (13 August 2012). "Builders Packing More Capability into Small Satellites". http://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/120813-builders-packing-capability-small-sats.html. 
  2. Karen Northon (2019-11-18). "New Companies Join Growing Ranks of NASA Partners for Artemis Program" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: NASA. NASA. Retrieved 2019-11-18.