HELIOS NEWS

22.12.20 – Helios was awarded a grant by the Israeli Space Agency to develop a demonstrator payload to be sent to the Moon.

06.12.20 – Helios filed a provisional patent on a novel method to produce silicon.

01.12.20 – Helios was awarded a grant by Israel’s Ministry of Energy to build a prototype for its terrestrial use.

20.08.20 – Helios successfully accomplished a series of experiments to prove the viability of its novel concept of electrodes.

09.07.20 – Dr. Brian Rosen joins the advisory board. Dr. Rosen is an expert electrochemist and will further strengthen Helios’ R&D efforts to commercialize its molten regolith electrolysis reactor.

19.04.20 – Helios established a European consortium with Fraunhofer IKTS (Germany), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Empa (Sweitzerland) and RISE (Sweden), to develop a holistic In-Situ Resource Utilization system.

05.03.20 – Helios established a new lab in Israel to develop and construct a small-scale prototype.

20.02.20 – Helios filed a provisional patent on a novel approach to conduct MRE (molten regolith electrolysis).

18.02.20 – Helios established a Florida based subsidiary to expand its collaboration with the US space industry.

25.07.19 – Helios commenced a collaboration with Florida Space Institute and the Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science (directed by Prof. Daniel Britt).

07.03.19 – Helios was awarded a grant by Israel’s Innovation Authority to reach proof of concept.

16.01.19 – Prof. Bertil Anderson joins the advisory board, Bertil is the former chief executive of the European science foundation and former president of Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University.

02.12.18 – Former NASA’s ISRU (In-Situ Resource Utilization ) project manager, William Larson, joins the advisory board.

19.07.18 – Helios project Ltd was registered in Israel.