Mission

Attitude Determination & Control Systems for SmallSats

Reliable, robust and low cost attitude determination and control systems embedding proprietary advanced processing algorithms.

Product portfolio

ARGO FA and ARGO SA star trackers

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ARGO FA star tracker

Product

ARGO FA

Fully autonomous, plug and play solution available in multicamera configuration, with embedded FDIR and high performance output for SmallSat missions.

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ARGO SA star tracker

Product

ARGO SA

Low SWaP-C Optical Head with pre-processing and ARGO Software, including data fusion, running on the hosting OBC.

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Forty years of heritage for NewSpace missions

Hipparcos is a spinoff company of EICAS Automazione and builds on a long experience in attitude determination from star measurement.

Main features

Built for flexible satellite architectures

Flexible configuration

From monocamera to multicamera architectures, ARGO adapts to customer needs and platform accommodation constraints.

Real-time data fusion

Intelligent fusion of measurements from multiple cameras, with smart in-flight calibration and robust processing.

Flight heritage

ARGO star trackers have flight heritage since 2021, supporting reliable access to space for SmallSat missions.

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Heritage

Legacy products

ARGO 1.0 and ARGO 2.0 remain available as heritage references behind the current ARGO FA and ARGO SA products.

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Brochure

ARGO star trackers brochure

The current ARGO brochure presents features, performance and mechanical details of the star tracker portfolio.

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