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Defense and Space Manufacturing

El Segundo, CA 5,567 followers

Making in-space transportation abundant

About us

At Argo, we are building infrastructure for the future of space. We believe the next great leap beyond Earth requires re-imagining in-space transportation – transitioning to a new paradigm of abundant, unconstrained movement. We are untethering space operations from Earth by leveraging the moon’s shallow gravity well and accessible water resources. Argo will harvest lunar water and use it as propellant to create a true in-space transportation network. By sourcing propellant from the moon, we will provide the freedom to maneuver throughout space. This freedom will expand the possibilities for space businesses and support permanent human presence beyond Earth. Harnessing Lunar water will help usher in a new era of affordable activity in space.

Industry

Defense and Space Manufacturing

Company size

11-50 employees

Headquarters

El Segundo, CA

Type

Privately Held

Founded

2022

Locations

Employees at Argo Space

Updates

If you are being impacted by the recent round of layoffs at JPL, but want to keep daring mighty things in space, we are always looking for great engineers to continue doing just that at Argo. We are building fast and moving quickly towards our first launch, so check out our open positions here on LinkedIn if you or someone you know would like to join.
Last week, we turned water into fire! Introducing Chiron, our gaseous H2-O2 spacecraft thruster. We developed Chiron to provide our Argonaut space logistics vehicles with responsive orbital movement and maneuver capabilities while taking full advantage of our water-based architecture. Developed as the high-thrust half of our dual-mode water propulsion system, Chiron uses hydrogen and oxygen gas, generated by electrolysis, to provide high thrust for getting places quickly. This complements our primary high-efficiency propulsion used for LEO to GEO transport, using the same water propellant. Water is the oil of space – and there are many ways to use it!
At Argo, we are creating water-based in-space transportation service to make deltaV abundant. Our Argonaut space vehicles will use on-orbit refueling to provide affordable, responsive transportation to MEO, GEO, and cislunar space. At IAC '24 we were proud to demonstrate a small step towards this future of in-space abundance by performing multiple live demonstrations of robotic propellant transfer with our partners at Arkisys, using Argo’s Open Propellant Transfer Interface (OPTI). To continue advancing our refuellable space logistics systems toward orbital operations, we also signed an MOU with Arkisys to host water storage and OPTI units at their Port Modules, allowing Argonauts to use these as on-orbit refueling stations.
We are pleased to announce our oversubscribed Seed Round, led by Crosslink Capital. This brings our total funds raised to nearly $12M including venture capital and U.S. Government contracts from NASA and the USSF. If you are an excellent engineer driven to help accelerate the creation of abundant in-space transportation and the use of in-space resources, apply to join our team. We will be using the funds to accelerate our progress in creating the in-space mobility and logistics architecture of the future, with a focus on developing and building the first Argo space vehicle for launch in Q4 2025. This funding will also support hires of additional top-tier engineering talent and our new headquarters in El Segundo, CA. This facility will house design, manufacturing, build, and test of Argo space transport vehicles and lunar water extraction hardware. Thank you to the continued support of all of our investors: Crosslink Capital, Type One Ventures, Stellar Ventures, Boost VC, AIR Capital, Venture Science, Gaingels and others. To learn more about our vision, visit our website and catch up on the latest of Aria Alamalhodaei's two great pieces she's written on Argo.
Argo Space's plan to power orbital tugs with moon water pulls in $7.9M | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com
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Thanks to Micah Maidenberg at The Wall Street Journal for a great explanation of the near future of in-space transportation. "We should view the rocket as the cargo ship regularly coming to port, and then we should have a semi-truck that lives in space and takes that cargo everywhere else." @Robert Carlisle, CEO and Co-Founder of Argo Space. Falcon 9 revolutionized access to space. Starship and other new “cargo ships” will further increase access to low Earth orbit. Bringing multi-modal transportation to space will change every aspect of missions in space, and Argo is working to make this a reality. If you are interested in learning more about our space mobility services or joining the team, visit www.argospace.com #inspacetransportation #spacetrucks
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We are excited to announce our award of a Direct-to-Phase II contract with SpaceWERX focused on tactically responsive on-orbit capabilities. This will support development of our refuellable, space-resident transport vehicle, the Argonaut. With this dual-use spacecraft, Argo will both provide rapid on-orbit response and logistical transport to GEO and cislunar space. To learn more about how we are building the future of in-space transportation visit www.argospace.com
SpaceWERX, in partnership with Space Safari, is pleased to announce the 19 awardees of the 2023 SpaceWERX Tactically Responsive Space Challenge! The TacRS Challenge generates cutting-edge ideas and state-of-the-art capabilities that will enable the United States Space Force to more rapidly and flexibly respond to emerging on-orbit threats by 2026. “The TacRS Challenge SBIR Direct to Phase II contracts are going to propel the U.S. Space Force toward future responsive and dynamic space operations,” said Col Erik Stockham, USSF Space Systems Command (SSC/SZA). “The future of space power requires capabilities that can respond to adversary action on tactical timelines. These innovative small businesses are developing groundbreaking approaches to employ space capabilities when and where it counts.” “The TacRS SpaceWERX Challenge shows how impactful the collaboration with our mission owners can be. We’re thrilled to have supported the TacRS program team on what is clearly going to be an impressive cohort of companies and technologies.” said Lt. Col. Vinny Pande, Chief of SpaceWERX Ventures. 232 companies submitted 302 proposals in response to the TacRS Open Innovation Challenge in Aug., a SBIR solicitation open to innovators from industry, academia, and government with solutions to solve identified problems. SpaceWERX will award up to 1.7MtoeachofthebelowSBIRPhaseIIcompanies,totaling1.7M to each of the below SBIR Phase II companies, totaling 1.7MtoeachofthebelowSBIRPhaseIIcompanies,totaling32.3M with a 15-month period-of-performance. ◾ Agile Space Industries, Inc. ◾ Apex Technology, Inc. ◾ Argo Space Corp. ◾ Circle Optics, Inc. ◾ Gravitics, Inc. ◾ Impulse Space, Inc. (two awards) ◾ K2 Space Corporation ◾ Map Large, Inc. ◾ PickNik, Inc. ◾ Portal Space Systems Inc. ◾ SCOUT Inc. ◾ Space Rig Systems Inc. ◾ Starfish Space ◾ Ten One Aerospace, LLC ◾ True Anomaly, Inc. ◾ Turion Space Corp. ◾ Varda Space Industries ◾ Xtenti, LLC Join us in congratulating our TacRS awardees! . . .#AFWERX #SpaceWERX #TacRS #SpaceWERXChallenge #funding #award #orbit #space #technology #innovation