{"id":122679,"date":"2021-05-18T08:23:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/tyvak-satellite-on-spacex-rideshare-mission-carries-tiny-space-telescope"},"modified":"2021-05-18T08:23:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:23:47","slug":"tyvak-satellite-on-spacex-rideshare-mission-carries-tiny-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/tyvak-satellite-on-spacex-rideshare-mission-carries-tiny-space-telescope","title":{"rendered":"Tyvak satellite on SpaceX rideshare mission carries tiny space telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tyvak-satellite-on-spacex-rideshare-mission-carries-tiny-space-telescope2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Tyvak-0130 rideshare payload that <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/spacex-launches-starlink-satellites-and-rideshare-payloads\/\">flew to orbit May 15<\/a> on a SpaceX Falcon 9 carries a miniature space telescope for possible commercial use.<\/p>\n<p>The technology was developed by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tyvak.com\/lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-and-tyvak-nano-satellite-systems-announce-agreement-to-develop-innovative-telescopes-for-nanosatellites\/\">four-year agreement<\/a> to advance compact telescopes for commercial applications, Tyvak\u2019s CEO Christian \u201cBoris\u201d Becker said in an interview with <em>SpaceNews.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Becker, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/tyvak-announces-ret-us-navy-rear-adm-c-d-boris-becker-as-chief-executive-officer-301289255.html\">recently named chief executive<\/a> of Tyvak, a satellite manufacturer in Irvine, California, owned by Terran Orbital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Tyvak-0130 rideshare payload that flew to orbit May 15 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 carries a miniature space telescope for possible commercial use. The technology was developed by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a four-year agreement to advance compact telescopes for commercial applications, Tyvak\u2019s CEO Christian \u201cBoris\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}