HELIOSAEROSPACE
Mission 01 · 6U · Launch target 2027

Helios I

A small satellite with one job: prove the systems every factory bay will run on.

Think of it as the show home. Before anyone rents space on a Helios module, our guidance, power and thermal systems will have flown, been pushed hard and been measured in orbit.

Helios I CAD model Flight CAD · CDR baseline

Three systems on trial.

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In the factory

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Demonstration payload

While it proves the platform, it maps the heat.

Helios I carries a thermal infrared imager pointed at cities. Urban heat islands kill people in heatwaves and wear out buildings and infrastructure. The data is split into life-risk and asset-risk layers and published openly.

Holding a thermal camera steady on a city block from 500 km away is a properly hard pointing test. Which is rather the point.

Footage: NASA

Mission facts

Values reflect the current design baseline and may change through test and launch integration.

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Helios I proves it. The factory puts it to work.

See the factory →