Argentora / deep-space data infrastructure
Optical networks for a moving sky.
Argentora develops relay systems and edge software for missions beyond reliable terrestrial networks. AstraShift coordinates optical links across Earth, orbit, and deep space; AstraNode carries that coordination into the network itself.
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Living OrreryActive development
AstraShift systemsProgram direction
AstraNode relay node
AstraNode / relay-node program
The spacecraft at the edge of the network.
AstraNode is Argentora’s autonomous relay-node program: a compact spacecraft architecture for receiving, storing, routing, and forwarding data while AstraShift coordinates the wider network.
- Optical
- Forward and aft relay terminals
- Autonomy
- Local navigation and constrained decision support
- Mobility
- Modular power and electric propulsion
Current work / systems architecture and subsystem development
See the AstraShift architecture ↗Why now
Static routing fails when the network itself moves.
Optical links can move more data, while narrow beams can reduce interception risk. But weather and line of sight can break a route without warning, and orbital assets make that geometry change continuously.
AstraShift is the coordination layer: it evaluates available paths, aligns moving assets, and helps operators keep the network useful as conditions change.
The Living Orrery
Explore how a network can route across Earth, orbit, the Moon, and deep space—then switch destinations and watch the system respond.
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Built by operators, educators, and instructional designers.
Argentora brings together experience from communications networks, startup operations, education, instructional design, and the practical work of helping people understand complex systems.
We believe the network and the way people learn to operate it have to be designed together.
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