Products

ARGO FA and ARGO SA star trackers

Multicamera star trackers developed for the evolving needs of the SmallSat market.

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ARGO star tracker portfolio

Performance, reliability, SWaP efficiency and cost competitiveness

ARGO FA star tracker
Current product

ARGO FA

Fully autonomous, plug and play solution available in multicamera configuration with embedded FDIR.

  • Attitude quaternion and rate vector output, status and health telemetry.
  • RS422 / redundant CANBus interface.
  • Up to 20 tracked stars and up to 10 Hz update rate.
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ARGO SA star tracker
Current product

ARGO SA

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

  • Output from ARGO software library.
  • SpaceWire interface.
  • Designed for flexible camera accommodation in the platform.
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Common strengths

ARGO multicamera architecture

Flexibility

Flexible configuration according to customer needs, from monocamera to multicamera, with flexible camera accommodation in the platform.

Accuracy

High accuracy also in monocamera version, with smart in-flight camera model calibration and relative camera attitude calibration.

Data fusion

Intelligent real-time fusion of measurements from all cameras and smart data processing to filter platform jitter.

Legacy products

Legacy references behind the current portfolio

ARGO FA carries forward the ARGO 1.0 heritage, while ARGO SA carries forward the ARGO 2.0 development path.

ARGO 1.0 legacy product
Legacy of ARGO FA

ARGO 1.0

Flight-proven multicamera star tracker heritage behind ARGO FA.

Legacy ARGO 1.0
ARGO 2.0 legacy product
Legacy of ARGO SA

ARGO 2.0

Low SWaP-C and data fusion development path behind ARGO SA.

Legacy ARGO 2.0