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Heliospace, a subsidiary of Helio Corporation (OTC:HLEO) has announced the successful launch of its hardware on the Blue Ghost Mission 1 (BGM1)?lander. Heliospace provided deployable mechanisms and sensors as part of the Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) experiment. The LMS experiment, led by Southwest Research Institute, is designed to study the interior of the Moon by measuring low frequency electromagnetic fields. Heliospace designed and built unique sensors that deploy up to 60 feet away from the lander to take measurements of low frequency electric waves at the lunar surface, and a separate compact deployable boom which deploys a magnetometer sensor upwards from the lander deck. These systems work together to enable the LMS experiment to achieve key scientific objectives. The LMS experiment is led by Dr. Robert Grimm, a program director in Southwest Research Institute’s Solar System Science and Exploration Division. Built by Firefly Aerospace, BGM1 will land on the Moon in the Mare Crisium basin carrying 10 NASA science investigations and technology demonstrations to study the Moon’s environment and help prepare for future human missions to the lunar surface. The BGM1 mission is part of the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, which purchases lunar delivery services for science investigations and technology demonstrations to the Moon.??

Heliospace, a subsidiary of Helio Corporation (OTC: HLEO) has announced the successful deployment of the radar antennas aboard the NASA Europa Clipper spacecraft. Heliospace designed, assembled, tested, and delivered these antennas under contract with Caltech as part of the Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface (REASON) instrument onboard Europa Clipper. Heliospace built two different types of radar antennas for the Europa Clipper mission: two High Frequency (HF) antennas, which deploy to over 55 ft in length, and four smaller Very High Frequency (VHF) antennas which deploy to approximately 9 feet in length.?The Heliospace radar antennas are an extremely compact design accommodated on the edges of the Europa Clipper spacecraft solar arrays. According to Heliospace co-founder and CEO Greg Delory, “We’re excited that our hardware has passed this first crucial milestone and look forward to the discoveries that the REASON instrument will make at Europa.” Under principal investigator Dr. Donald Blankenship of the University of Texas, Austin, REASON is a dual-frequency ice penetrating radar instrument designed to characterize and sound Europa's icy crust from the near-surface to the ocean, revealing the hidden structure of Europa's ice shell and potential water within. The Europa Clipper program is managed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Excited to announce the successful launch of our deployable radar antennas aboard the NASA Europa Clipper spacecraft on Oct 14, 2024. Heliospace designed, assembled, tested, and delivered these antennas under contract with Caltech as part of the Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface (REASON) instrument onboard Europa Clipper. The Heliospace radar antennas are an extremely compact design accommodated on the edges of the Europa Clipper spacecraft solar arrays and will deploy to form two large dipole antennas up to 17.6 m in length, along with four smaller dipoles during the flight. All of us at Heliospace are pleased to have been able to use our company’s technology to help advance NASA’s mission to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa. This is one of the solar system’s most fascinating objects, where conditions for life may exist, and to be able to contribute to its exploration is an exciting moment for us. To learn more, follow the link to the spacecraft model where you can see our antennas in action. Under principal investigator Dr. Donald Blankenship of the University of Texas, Austin, REASON is a dual-frequency ice penetrating radar instrument designed to characterize and sound Europa's icy crust from the near-surface to the ocean, revealing the hidden structure of Europa's ice shell and potential water within. The Europa Clipper program is managed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. https://lnkd.in/gYZ4Qv7b

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At Heliospace, our customer base ranges from NASA and foreign space agencies to private companies, Universities and non-profits. We address our customer needs with a tailored approach to hardware, mission and system development spanning a wide range of complexity and reliability, ranging from small low cost missions to NASA flagship level missions. Visit us at www.helio.space

Heliospace is an aerospace company offering wide ranging solutions including space qualified hardware, systems engineering, analysis, management, and integration & test services for space missions. Visit us at www.helio.space

We're nearing the end of a long road for the REASON Radar antennas designed and built by Heliospace, now successfully installed on the Europa Clipper spacecraft. Fingers crossed for a smooth launch and deployment in space! https://lnkd.in/gdbpuSH4

Congratulations to the team at Intuitive Machines for demonstrating that a commercial company can successfully land on the Moon. Onboard were four deployable antennas built by Heliospace for the NASA Radio Wave Observations at the Lunar Surface of the photoelectron Sheath (ROLSES) experiment. We had visual confirmation that at least one antenna deployed and data indicating that the rest did as well. While this mission was cut short, we applaud this enormously significant step and look forward to building antennas for another ROLSES experiment on a future mission. The ROLSES experiment is managed by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Principal Investigator N. Gopalswamy, and was flown on the Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program (CLPS).?