The things that take the most precision to make, like drug crystals, specialty fibre, chip substrates and quantum parts, all share one problem: gravity. For twenty-five years the ISS proved it, a few samples at a time. It retires around 2030. What comes next shouldn't be another lab. It should be a production line.
So we're building the factories.
Gravity is a terrible
coworker.
On Earth, every liquid is quietly churning. Warm bits rise, cool bits sink, heavy bits settle. You'd never notice, unless you're trying to grow a perfect crystal or pull a flawless glass fibre. In orbit all of that stops. Molecules drift in one at a time and line up politely.
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We run the spacecraft.
You run the process.
Flying one experiment today means building a whole satellite around it. That's like building a house because you fancy baking a cake. On Helios the house is already there, and every bay comes plugged into the five systems that keep a spacecraft alive.
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Your process.
Your secret sauce.
We don't make products, because you do what you do best. We keep the lights on, the temperature right and the building pointing the right way. Launch, licensing and ground stations are on us too.
Helios I · flight CAD
Helios I
Think of it as the show home. A 6U satellite that flies our own guidance, power and thermal systems, the same ones every factory bay will run on, before anyone signs a lease.
Its demonstration payload is a thermal imager mapping urban heat islands, with the data published openly.
The people building it
Meet the team →
Got something that wants to be made in orbit?
Pharma, fibre, chips, quantum. Tell us what you're making and we'll tell you what a bay can do for it. Investors and launch partners, come and say hello too.