Argo MOTH

Argo Astronautics · Medium Salvage · flight ready

The Argo MOTH is a medium salvage ship from Argo Astronautics with a crew of 2–4 and 224 SCU of cargo. It moves at 140 m/s in SCM and 960 m/s in NAV mode, on 130,000 hull HP and 100,000 shield HP. In game it sells for 8,483,740 aUEC at New Deal - Teasa Spaceport - Lorville, or rents from 223,256 aUEC a day. On the pledge store it lists at $315.

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Overview

Crew: 2–4
Cargo: 224 SCU
Mass: 880,236 kg
Hull HP: 130,000
Shield HP: 100,000
Size class: 3
Length: 0 m
Beam: 0 m
Height: 0 m
Pledge (USD): $315

Which containers fit its 3 cargo grids, from 1 to 32 SCU.

In-game price & where to buy

Type	aUEC	Terminal	System	Reported
Buy	8,483,740	New Deal - Teasa Spaceport - Lorville	Stanton	11d
Buy	8,930,250	Buy and Fly - Checkmate	Pyro	16d
Buy	8,930,250	Buy and Fly - Orbituary	Pyro	15d
Buy	8,930,250	Buy and Fly - Ruin Station	Pyro	8d
Buy	8,930,250	Teach's Ship Shop - Levski	Nyx	16d
Rent / day	223,256	Teach's Rentals - Levski	Nyx	16d
Rent / day	223,256	Vantage Rentals - Lorville	Stanton	26d
Rent / day	223,257	Vantage Rentals - ARC-L1	Stanton	7d
Rent / day	223,257	Vantage Rentals - ARC-L2	Stanton	7d
Rent / day	223,257	Vantage Rentals - ARC-L4	Stanton	50d
Rent / day	223,257	Vantage Rentals - CRU-L1	Stanton	47d
Rent / day	223,257	Vantage Rentals - HUR-L1	Stanton	16d
Rent / day	223,257	Vantage Rentals - HUR-L2	Stanton	7d
Rent / day	223,257	Vantage Rentals - MIC-L1	Stanton	10d
Rent / day	223,257	Vantage Rentals - MIC-L2	Stanton	10d

Prices as reported to UEX Corp, fetched 28 Oct 2026; crowd-sourced, so they can differ by shard and drift between reports. The Reported column is the age of each report. Showing the 10 cheapest of 18 rental terminals.

Flight performance

SCM speed: 140 m/s
Max (NAV): 960 m/s
Boost fwd: 340 m/s
Boost back: 150 m/s
0 → SCM: 4.01 s
0 → max: 27.48 s
Pitch: 30 °/s
Yaw: 30 °/s
Roll: 75 °/s
Pitch (boost): 36 °/s

Acceleration and boosted handling are the numbers most loadout tools skip; they decide fights as much as DPS.

Weapon fitting interactive

0 DPS burst

Fit a pilot gun to each hardpoint; the totals update live. Gun data from build 4.10.2-LIVE.12881860. Opens on the highest-burst gun per slot.

S2 S2

Burst: 0 DPS
Sustained (60 s): 0 DPS
Alpha (one volley): 0

Pilot-fired guns only, at the size each mount accepts. Guns inside turrets are left out on multi-crew ships, because the game data does not say which seat fires them. Sustained is the average damage per second over 60 seconds of holding the trigger: burst DPS times the share of that time the gun can fire, then capped by the magazine. For an energy gun the share is fire time / (fire time + recharge delay + recharge time), where fire time is the capacitor load divided by shots per second. For a gun with overheat data it is time to overheat / (time to overheat + cooldown). A ballistic magazine that empties inside the minute caps it at rounds x damage per shot / 60. The ship's shared weapon power pool is not modeled. Alpha is the damage of every fitted gun firing once. Gimbal tracking and missiles are not modeled. Your build is saved on this device and shareable by link.

Component fitting interactive

Swap the shield generators, power plant, coolers and quantum drive. Shield, power, cooling and quantum figures below update with the fit. Component data from build 4.10.2-LIVE.12881860.

S3power plant S3shield generator S3cooler S2quantum drive

Shield HP: 100,000
Shield regen: – HP/s
Power requested: – of – segments
Cooling requested: – of – segments

Shield HP adds the strongest 2 generators, because this ship powers at most 2 at once (its shield power pool). Power and cooling are what the ship requests with shields up: the rest of the ship as the game data gives it, plus the fitted shields and coolers at their maximum draw. Requests above supply are normal; the in-game power pips decide what runs. Quantum range is the ship's quantum fuel divided by the fitted drive's fuel use. These relations were checked against every stock ship in the data before use. Saved on this device and shareable by link together with the gun build.

Quantum travel

Quantum speed: 303,537 km/s
Quantum range: 1,048 million km
Spool time: 7.2 s
10 Gm jump: 67 s

With the stock quantum drive. Fit another drive above and these figures follow it.

Signatures

IR: 8,846
EM (idle): 21,988
EM (max): 54,888

Infrared and electromagnetic emission with the stock loadout. Lower is harder to detect and lock.

How it compares

Metric	Value	Rank of all ships	Rank in Medium Salvage
SCM speed	140 m/s	213 / 234	1 / 1
Max (NAV) speed	960 m/s	203 / 234	1 / 1
Pitch rate	30 °/s	175 / 234	1 / 1
Max pilot-gun DPS (burst)	1,320 DPS	156 / 192	1 / 1
Max sustained pilot DPS (60 s)	1,246 DPS	156 / 192	1 / 1
Max pilot alpha (one volley)	1,584 damage	156 / 192	1 / 1
Hull HP	130,000 HP	31 / 234	1 / 1
Shield HP	100,000 HP	38 / 234	1 / 1
Cargo	224 SCU	23 / 118	1 / 1
In-game price	8,483,740 aUEC	112 / 140	1 / 1

Rank 1 is best (highest, or cheapest for price) among ships that carry that figure in this build's data. Full lists: ship rankings.

Related ships

All hardpoints

paint S1
cockpit_flair_hang S1
battery S2

FlightController 1

controller_flight S1

Cooler 1

cooler S3

Power 1

power_plant S3

QuantumDrive 1

quantum_drive S2

MidRangeRadar 1

radar S2

Shield 1

shield_generator_left S3

Full component slots (shields, coolers, power plant, quantum drive) shown above; interactive fitting for those is coming. The weapon DPS fitter is live higher on this page.