Tyvak International S.r.l.

Tyvak International S.r.l. is the Italian nanosatellite and CubeSat manufacturing arm of Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, itself a subsidiary of Terran Orbital Corporation (a Lockheed Martin company). Headquartered in Turin, Italy, and tracing its roots to 2013, the company designs, builds, integrates and tests small satellite platforms and subsystems for European institutional and commercial customers, drawing on the CubeSat heritage of the original Tyvak founders at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Tyvak International's product line centers on the Intrepid and Endeavour nanosatellite bus platforms in 3U/6U/12U/16U form factors, together with in-house guidance, navigation and control (GNC), electrical power systems (EPS), command and data handling (C&DH), and CubeSat dispenser hardware. The company also offers launch brokering and integration, mission design and operations, and access to a global ground station network shared with Terran Orbital.

The company has become a key contractor for the European Space Agency and Italian Space Agency (ASI), building CubeSats for deep-space and planetary-defense missions such as Milani (part of ESA's Hera mission to the Didymos binary asteroid system) and the CubeSats supporting the Ramses mission to near-Earth asteroid Apophis. Other notable programs include IPERDRONE, SAT-GUS, and the Centauri series of technology-demonstration and Earth observation smallsats, alongside 5G satellite communications demonstrations for ESA.

With an ISO-7 cleanroom, EMI/EMC test laboratory, and full assembly-integration-and-test (AI&T) capability at its Turin facility, Tyvak International supports the complete lifecycle of nanosatellite missions from design through on-orbit operations, contributing to a combined Tyvak/Terran Orbital heritage of more than 250 satellites delivered to orbit.