The Pioneers of Small Satellites
Decades of pioneering
Terran Orbital is a leading manufacturer of small satellites primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries. Terran Orbital provides end-to-end satellite solutions by combining satellite design, production, launch planning, mission operations, and in-orbit support to meet the needs of the most demanding military, civil, and commercial customers.
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1999
Dr. Jordi Puig-Suari and Bob Twiggs develop the CubeSat Standard
The Gold Standard Still Followed Today
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2011
Dr. Puig-Suari co-founds Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems
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2012
Tyvak Invents the Most Compact, Lowest Power Avionics for Commercial Satellites (Intrepid Platform)
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2013
Tyvak Brings First Commercial CubeSats with Propulsion and Precision Control to Market (Endeavour Platform)
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2013
Terran Orbital Founded by Marc Bell and Anthony Previte with Headquarters in Irvine, California
Terran Orbital Acquires Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems
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2015
Launches the First Commercial Intelligence Community CubeSat Constellation with Build to Launch Times of <5 Months
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2016
We Enabled The First National Reconnaissance Office Small Satellites to Launch on Commercial Rideshare
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2017
Develops and Launches First Nano-Satellite Capable of Controlled Orbit Change (PACSCISAT)
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2017
Develops and Launches First Nano-Satellite Capable of Rendezvous On-Orbit (NANOACE)
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2018
Develops and Launches Two Satellites that use GPS Signals to Collect Climate Data for NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (CICERO)
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2018
Develops and Launches a Nano-Satellite with a Novel Telescope to Track Objects on Earth and in Space for a U.S. Government Research Laboratory (GeoStare)
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2018
We Provided Launch Integration Services and Hardware for First Ever Small Satellites Sent to Mars
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2018
Develops and Launches First Ever Nano-Satellite Radar Mission for NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (RainCube)
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2018
We Provided Hardware and Launch Integration Services for First Commercial Small-Rocket Launch
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2018
Invents First High-Volume Production Flight Hardware Capable of Sending Nano-Satellites Outside Low-Earth Orbit (MRK2 Platform)
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2019
Launched Next-Generation Nano-Satellite to Become the New Industry Standard at this Form Factor (Tyvak-0129)
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2019
Terran Orbital’s Newest Company, PredaSAR is Founded to Own and Operate Constellations of Highly Advanced Commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Satellites
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2019
Terran Orbital Completes 40,000sq.ft State-of-the-Art Facility and Additional 10,000sq.ft State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Facility
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2020
Partnership with Lawrence Livermore national laboratory to develop new innovative telescopes for nanosatellites -
2020
successful launch of FSSCat and OSM-1 -
2021
Terran Orbital Delivers Small Satellite Into Operational Orbit For EchoStar -
2021
BigBear.Ai Enters Into Commercial Partnership With Terran Orbital To Support Satellite Constellation Manufacturing And Operations
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2021
PredaSAR works with DARPA's Blackjack constellation to set up interoperability
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2022
We Will Be Demonstrating First Ever On-Orbit Nano-Satellite Docking Mission (CPOD)
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2022
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC to Feature a Tyvak CubeSat on Permanent Display
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2022
Terran Orbital went public on the New York Stock exchange (LLAP)
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2022
The Fleet Space, GeoOptics, and NASA commissioned satellites are embarking on four groundbreaking missions
satellites include two NASA CubeSat Proximity Operations Demonstration (CPOD) vehicles, NASA Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3), Fleet Space CENTAURI-5, and two GeoOptics CICERO-2 vehicles.
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2022
CAPSTONE lifts off for lunar orbit to blaze path for NASA Gateway space station
CAPSTONE, or Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, lifted off early Tuesday morning (June 28) on a four-and-a-half month journey to enter a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the moon. The same orbit will be used by Gateway, NASA's planned lunar platform from which Artemis missions will be able to reach any site on the moon's surface, including landings at the lunar south pole.