Argo Space

Get to know our newest team member, Jack Griffin, Spacecraft Engineer! Jack interned at KULR and graduated from Yale University, where he led the undergrad liquid rocketry club. What led you to be interested in aerospace? I joined Argo after graduating from Yale University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. I was the Structures lead and President of Yale's undergrad liquid rocketry club, Project Liquid, where I got the opportunity to design, build, and test flight hardware, which confirmed my interest in the aerospace industry. During a summer internship at KULR Technology, I worked on and conducted ballistics testing of bulletproof, thermal propagation-resistant battery packs, which gave me valuable insight into how the industry functions. Why did you choose to work at Argo or what is your favorite thing about working here? Argo’s ambitious mission and novel propulsion concept caught my eye. After being welcomed to the team, I have quickly been exposed to many of the intricacies of satellite design and execution. I love how ambitious and collaborative the engineering teams at Argo are. Everyone is committed to the mission's success. I can't wait to see what is to come and am excited to contribute to the Spacecraft team. Fun facts or hobbies? I grew up in San Antonio, TX, before moving to CT for college, but I've always wanted to move to LA to explore the live music scene and spend time outdoors backpacking, biking, and skiing. At Yale, I really enjoyed learning American Sign Language, and I'm excited to continue to learn from the Deaf community and become an interpreter on the side one day! #space #hiring #careers

Our Argonaut Demo spacecraft is integrated and ready for launch next week! The Argo team has successfully developed and built a new class of spacecraft, designed from the ground up for mobility on orbit. Now we will attempt to demonstrate this novel capability in flight. Argonaut Demo is far from a standard demonstration mission. This is the first instantiation of Argo’s water-based spacecraft architecture, laying the foundation of the orbital logistics system we are building to enable the industrial space age. This is a high-risk mission – but risk is how we create real advances. Not only will this first vehicle demonstrate all core Argo spacecraft technologies, it also carries payloads for our customers Anduril Industries, ThinkOrbital, and Infinite Orbits. For more on this mission, https://lnkd.in/gFTV5jt2 Robert Carlisle, Ryan Carlisle, Kirby Carlisle #space

Say hello to our newest team member, Ben G.! Ben joins us from SpaceX and is supporting Argo Space's Government Business Development & Sales initiatives. What was your professional experience prior to joining Argo? Before Argo, I worked in government sales and account management at SpaceX, helping U.S. government customers fill gaps in their communication and capabilities with Starlink products. Prior to SpaceX, I was a consultant at BCG working in the aerospace and defense verticals, and I served as a Naval officer. Serving as a surface warfare and information professional officer within the Navy is where I first saw how much the operational side of the military depends on space and how hard it is to get new capabilities into their hands quickly. This is the gap I work on at Argo.  Why did you choose to work at Argo or what is your favorite thing about working here? My favorite thing about working at Argo is helping bring a revolutionary product to the people in government who need it the most. Low-cost flights to low Earth orbit need to be coupled with low-cost access to other orbits, which is exactly what our family of space vehicles provides Where are you originally from? I’m originally from Las Vegas, where there is ironically little water to go around. My time growing up there led to the opposite end of the spectrum, with lots of time on Navy ships, and now making water the propellant of the future! #careers #space #hiring

The first of Argo Space's orbital logistics vehicles flies this summer. Introducing Argo Mission 1, the next step toward the Industrial Space Age. Details coming soon. #space #logistics

Excited to announce KULR has been selected by Argo Space as the battery provider for its forthcoming orbital transport space mission. We look forward to supplying Argo with KULR ONE Space battery systems engineered to NASA safety standards, helping power critical spacecraft subsystems throughout the mission’s operational lifetime. https://lnkd.in/gM3Vb2X3 #Space #CommercialSpace #OrbitalTransport #BatteryTechnology

Meet our newest Propulsion Engineer, Cruz Soto. Cruz is joining us from Stanford, where he was an NSF Fellow. Learn more about his journey and why he joined Argo Space. What was your professional experience prior to joining Argo? Before Argo, I was an NSF fellow in Ronald Hanson’s High Temperature Gas Laboratory (HiTemp) at Stanford. I used spectroscopy to observe concentrations of molecules in high-speed air, merging my previous undergraduate experiences as a physics researcher and rocketeer to investigate the fundamental chemistry of air around spacecraft on its way to or from the stars. I also interned as a pad launch engineer at SpaceX in Cape Canaveral, where I made small contributions to pads 39-A and SLC-40, which are the two launch pads SpaceX uses to send astronauts to the International Space Station. Why did you choose to work at Argo or what is your favorite thing about working here? I wanted a fast-paced environment, and Argo is reminiscent of my undergrad days launching rockets with friends, but on a much larger scale of course. I love learning about both the fundamental physics required to make our satellite go, while also furthering our access to the space above and beyond Low Earth Orbit.   Where are you originally from? I was born in Pasadena and was raised in Fresno, California, but I grew up visiting Los Angeles since my entire family lives here! As a result of growing up near Yosemite, Sequioa, and Kings Canyon National Parks, I enjoy being in nature, hiking, and trail running when I can! #space #propulsion #engineer

We're excited about our partnership with ispace, inc. to advance reliable infrastructure in cislunar space. Here's to 2027's mission! 🛰️ #space #satellite #infrastructure

Get to know our newest member at Argo Space, Jacob Kosberg, Senior Software Engineer. Jacob joins our team with experience in avionics firmware and robotics. What was your professional experience prior to joining Argo? Prior to Argo, I worked at Relativity Space on avionics firmware for their Terran launch vehicle, and at NASA-JPL on ice robots designed to search for life on icy ocean worlds like Europa. I even had the opportunity to to travel to the Arctic several times to test these systems in extreme deep-winter environments. Why did you choose to work at Argo, and what is your favorite thing about working here? I joined Argo to work on systems that venture further from Earth than any other system I’ve worked on before. I want to help build next-generation solar punk platforms that enable access to new worlds. My favorite thing about working here is the opportunity to have a huge impact on the design surface. There are many challenging problems that require innovation and technical problem-solving, and I am able to apply my knowledge of shortcomings from past system implementations to create designs that are robust to fault conditions. Validating and testing these new designs is a challenge and uniquely rewarding. What is your favorite sci-fi book/movie/content? I’m a huge fan of the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov and inspired by the work of Philip K. Dick, particularly his influence on films like Blade Runner and the original Total Recall. These materials have interesting takeaways around asking civilization-scale questions like: how does the universe work, and are we alone in it? #space #hiring #careers

It was an honor to join the inaugural U.S. Space Command Apollo Insight event last week. Credible deterrence and superiority in a contested space domain will require next-generation maneuver enabled by logistics and sustainment - not just incremental improvements to legacy solutions. Argo Space is building these next-gen capabilities now... first launch coming soon.

Congratulations to NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the crew of Artemis II on a successful launch today, and good luck on the remainder of the journey ahead. For the first time in more than 50 years, humanity is on our way back to the moon. Fair winds and following seas, Integrity. 🌕🌍