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The PwC-led consortium includes HyPrSpace, Andøya Spaceport, Argotec, Atlantic Spaceport Consortium, IDS Corporation, and Arctic Space.
Argotec, CIRA, and SITAEL are consortium partners in the Space Factory 4.0 programme led by Thales Alenia Space.
Argotec inaugurated its SpacePark microsatellite production facility in San Mauro Torinese in October 2024.
Argotec opened a new SpacePark headquarters and manufacturing facility in Turin, Italy on 2024-10-18.
Argotec was originally contracted to build 10 satellites for IRIDE and signed a contract on 2024-10-16 for 15 additional satellites.
Argotec plans to expand in the United States and may seek funding in coming years to support U.S. expansion and research and development toward building 80% of its satellite subsystems in-house.
Argotec operates two facilities in the United States located in Largo, Maryland and Melbourne, Florida.
Argotec set aside 1,200 square meters of the SpacePark building for SpacePark HUB, an accelerator for startups developing technologies Argotec could use for its spacecraft.
Argotec spent 25,000,000 EUR renovating the SpacePark building, adding clean rooms and mission control centers.
Argotec plans to produce the next 15 IRIDE satellites in SpacePark, its facility near Turin scheduled to open on 2024-10-18.
Argotec will provide 15 optical satellites to the IRIDE constellation under the 2024-10-16 contracts.
Argotec has nearly completed construction of the first batch of 10 satellites it is supplying for IRIDE.
Thales Alenia Space and Argotec have contracts dated 2024-10-16 at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan to supply satellites for Italy’s IRIDE Earth-observation constellation.
Argotec previously signed in December 2022 for the delivery of the first 10 IRIDE satellites.
Argotec has signed a contract to deliver 15 additional Earth Observation small satellites for the IRIDE constellation.
Hawk Platform 6U from Argotec is equipped with sun sensors, a star tracker, accelerometers, a 3-axis stabilized attitude control system, and telemetry transmitter data rates of up to 100 Mbps in LEO.
Hawk Platform 6U from Argotec has a payload peak power of 40 W, a solar array peak power of up to 80 W, and bus data storage of 64 GB.
Hawk Platform 6U from Argotec supports RS422, LVDS, SpaceWire, SPI, I2C, and CAN data bus interfaces and has a command radio receiver data rate of up to 30 Mbps in LEO.
Argotec’s first product to be manufactured in its new U.S. facility will be a custom Universal Space Transponder-Lite intended to improve radio frequency performance for satellites in deep space and facilitate a planetary service relay system.
Argotec will work with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to create a streamlined version of the Universal Space Transponder-Lite radio for high-speed deep-space communications services.