Argotec
Overview
Designs and manufactures CubeSats and small deep-space spacecraft for institutional customers (NASA, ESA, ASI), operating out of its SpacePark facility with additional sites in Germany and the United States.
Moat: Flight-proven deep-space CubeSat heritage — Argotec built LICIACube, the Italian Space Agency spacecraft that independently imaged NASA's DART asteroid impact — a credential very few smallsat manufacturers anywhere can claim.
Business
Primary customers
- Government: NASA
- Government: European Space Agency / Italian Space Agency
Sectors
satellite-manufacturing · deep-space-smallsats · space-food-systems
Key Products
- LICIACubeoperational
6U CubeSat built for the Italian Space Agency that flew alongside NASA's DART mission and imaged the asteroid impact.
- HENONdevelopment
Deep-space CubeSat mission in development.
- SpacePark manufacturing facilityoperational
Argotec's Turin-area production and integration facility.
Near-term Catalysts
- unconfirmed launch date
HENON mission progress
Continues Argotec's deep-space CubeSat track record beyond LICIACube.
Top Risks
- Concentration in institutional (NASA/ESA/ASI) customers exposes revenue to multi-year agency budget and programme-selection cycles.
- Competition from a growing field of smallsat manufacturers pursuing similar deep-space CubeSat opportunities.
Recent Milestones
- 2022-09-26
LICIACube independently images NASA's DART asteroid-impact mission
What investors should know
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Peers
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Press Release
- Argotec — Our Team · 2026-07-27