Argus will contain the largest mosaic of cameras ever assembled, with 120 gigapixels spread across nearly two and a half square meters of silicon. Each night, Argus will collect between hundreds and thousands of terabytes of data (depending on the observing mode), of which an average of 25 terabytes will be stored and shared long-term. All Argus data will be searched for exciting events in realtime by our machine-learning systems.

Argus is currently under construction, and we’ve been producing telescopes since summer 2025. The core components (telescopes, cameras, focusers, pipeline) have undergone years of development and prototyping. Argus construction is set to complete in 2027.

Argus has been, from the start, designed to be public infrastructure for the worldwide astronomical community, and all Argus data will be made available to the public with minimal processing latency.

Argus will be located in the US; we’ll announce the specific location soon!

Stay tuned for the public release of our new array design, currently under design review.

Argus is somewhat unique among telescopes and instruments for neither being named after an astronomer, nor an acronym of any kind. Argus could be named after the many-eyed mythological giant, assigned by the goddess Hera to serve as watchman and guardian of the priestess Io, but is in fact a reference to a Federation subspace telescope located in the Alpha Quadrant and featured in season 4, episode 19 of Star Trek: The Next Generation.