Argead builds the translation layer between orbital debris composition and printable refractory high-entropy alloys — spectroscopy in, fabrication spec out, computed at the point of capture.
Alloy-design AI assumes clean, curated feedstock — you can order pure elements. Debris-removal ventures treat every derelict object as trash to be deorbited and burned. In-space manufacturing launches its feedstock from Earth at thousands of dollars per kilogram.
Nobody has built the function that turns an unknown, contaminated, mixed-metal object in LEO into a viable high-entropy alloy composition and a fabrication spec. That mapping requires fluency in both domains at once — and the two industries don't talk to each other.
We aren't contradicting the doctrine of eliminating mass. We're extending it one step further: mass in LEO has already been paid for. Roughly $2,500 per kilogram of launch cost, sitting there as inventory.
Onboard spectroscopy reads the elemental fingerprint of a captured object. A generative surrogate model, running on edge GPUs, maps that fingerprint and its orbital environment to a refractory high-entropy alloy composition and a laser-sinter fabrication spec. This mapping — (spectroscopy input, orbital fingerprint) → (composition, fab spec) — is the IP.
Reentry leading edges. Fusion plasma-facing walls. Turbine hot sections. LEO hardware that can't come home for repairs.
The organizations that operate in these environments know who they are — and they know the difference between a validated alloy and a prediction. We're building toward the former and labeling the latter.
These compositions were produced by a variational-autoencoder framework over a curated refractory HEA corpus. They exist as computational predictions and nothing more — and we label them that way, structurally, in every output we produce.
Every entry carries an evidence-basis tag: [EXP] experimental, [COMP] computational, [LIT-INF] literature-inferred. If a claim can't carry a tag, it doesn't ship.
Research — collaboration on refractory HEA design, validation, or the debris-to-feedstock mapping.
Programs — agency and prime program discussions. We'll tell you plainly what's validated and what isn't.
Corpus access — a login to interrogate the corpus yourself.