Argotec

Argotec is an Italian aerospace engineering company founded in 2008 in Turin by David Avino, with additional offices in Maryland and Florida in the United States and at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. The company designs and builds small satellites of up to about 200 kilograms, including the LICIACube spacecraft that imaged the aftermath of the DART asteroid impact and the ArgoMoon lunar mission, and it separately develops equipment intended to improve astronaut comfort in orbit, such as the ISSpresso espresso machine flown on the International Space Station.