Created: 2023-04-13
Updated: 2025-09-06
Company - Argo Space
Product/Service - Argonaut
- Classification
- In-Space Transportation
- Category
- Transport Service (LEO-Moon)
Propellant Refilling
Space Mining
- Fields
- Reusable
Refilling Station
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- 2026
Argonaut
The Argonaut: Water-Propelled Reusable High DeltaV Spacecraft Transfer Stage, 2023 SBIR Phase I.
Payloads to be Launched on Upcoming SpaceX Mission to the Moon, 2023-11-21
- Five customers are releasing details of their payloads today: Argo Space, Astroport, Avalon Space, Interstellar Lab, and LifeShip. Three more customers are contracted with Astrolab but intend to release details of their payloads at a future date, closer to launch. Collectively, these eight contracts are valued at more than $160 million.
- Argo Space Corp. (Argo) of Hermosa Beach, California intends to use FLEX to deploy a demonstration payload that will advance the development of Argo's unique, scalable technology designed to harvest low-concentration water from Lunar regolith. Argo’s novel processing approach will economically extract water outside of permanently shadowed regions (PSRs). This mission is a major step in the company’s efforts to use water from regolith for commercial applications to make in-space transportation abundant and build a Lunar economy. “We’re excited to work with Astrolab on this and future missions to catalyze a commercial Lunar economy and a sustained presence on the Moon,” said Robert Carlisle, CEO, Argo Space.
- Argo Space Corp, a developer of spacecraft for in-space logistical transportation and mobility services, has signed an agreement with Infinite Orbits, a French new space company specializing in GEO in-orbit servicing solutions via its US affiliate.
- Under the collaboration, Argo will fly Infinite Orbits’ technology aboard Argo’s spacecraft, launching in 2026. This partnership represents a significant milestone in international space cooperation and demonstrates the growing synergy between in-space technologies.
Product/Service
- Classification
- Space Resources
- Category
- Space Mining
In-Space Manufacturing
Space Resources
Resources - Water
- Fields
- Refilling Station
Water
Moon
Propellant
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- Not announced
Lunar Water
Argo transportation services run on water. Today, we launch this from Earth. Tomorrow, we will source it from the Moon. The Moon’s shallow gravity well lets us source fuel more efficiently than launching it from Earth, providing lower cost, abundant transport and mobility in orbit. This approach – driving demand for a Lunar resource from space transportation service – will catalyze a Lunar economy.
Created: 2025-09-04
Updated: 2025-09-06
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