Project ORION

The PCB is the spacecraft.
The swarm is the infrastructure.

Argus Orbital builds autonomous satellite swarms that replace billion-dollar monolithic space systems with circuit-board-sized nodes. One architecture. Three simultaneous missions. Sub-$1M per node at scale.

10×
Mass reduction
<$1M
Per-node cost at scale
14
Integrated subsystems
266 TOPS
AI compute per node

Satellite-on-a-Board

Each ORION node is a 12U CubeSat where LTCC/LCP rigid-flex substrates serve as both the structural chassis and the complete electrical system. No wiring harnesses. No assembly integration. The board is the bus.

Compute

Hexa-Redundant Stack

Radiation-hardened RISC-V processors paired with 266 TOPS AI accelerators and neuromorphic co-processors for autonomous decision-making in deep space.

Communications

Optical Inter-Satellite Links

Terabit-per-second laser crosslinks enabling unjammable mesh networking across solar-system distances. No RF dependency.

Power

Nuclear Thermophotovoltaic

Sustained power generation independent of solar proximity. Enables deep-space operations beyond Mars orbit where solar panels become impractical.

Propulsion

Hall-Effect Thrusters

Multi-modal propulsion architecture enabling orbital insertion, station-keeping, and formation flying with precision measured in millimeters.

Three capabilities from one platform

Every ORION node runs all three mission profiles simultaneously. The swarm doesn't specialize. It multiplies.

01
Communications

Unjammable Optical Relay Network

A terabit-per-second deep-space communications backbone replacing the overloaded Deep Space Network. Laser mesh topology with no single point of failure. Designed for Artemis, Mars missions, and beyond.

02
Science

Distributed Gravitational Wave Observatory

Solar-system-scale interferometry at a fraction of LISA's €1.75B price tag. A swarm-based approach that scales detection capability by adding nodes, not building larger spacecraft.

03
Defense

Autonomous Planetary Defense

Neuromorphic 360-degree monitoring for near-Earth objects and interstellar visitors with sub-millisecond detection latency. Persistent coverage. No ground-station dependency.

Built on proven physics

Every subsystem builds on validated heritage missions. No unproven science. The integration of 14 independently demonstrated technologies into one node is the innovation.

Swarm Autonomy

NASA Starling · 2023

Four-CubeSat swarm demonstrated autonomous navigation, coordination, and multi-point science data collection in LEO.

Optical Deep-Space Comms

NASA DSOC · Psyche Mission

First laser communication from deep space. Confirmed viability of optical links at interplanetary distances.

Precision Formation Flying

ESA PROBA-3 · 2024

Millimeter-precision autonomous formation flying demonstrated between two spacecraft in high Earth orbit.

The infrastructure gap is real

Deep-space communication capacity hasn't scaled with mission demand. The DSN is overloaded, the alternatives are decades away, and the defense sector needs distributed architectures now.

40%
DSN oversubscription rate.
Running on 1960s hardware.
$1.1B
CubeSat market by 2032.
11.1% CAGR and accelerating.
€1.75B
LISA's price for 3 spacecraft.
We build swarms for less.

We're not building a better CubeSat.
We're building a new category of space infrastructure.

Provisional patent filed. Hardware design in progress. Academic consortium forming with Stanford Space Rendezvous Lab. Delaware C-Corp.