Helios Platform combines a Large Earth Model (LEM) concept with large language models (LLMs) to enable chat-style analysis of satellite data and GIS data without specialist knowledge.
Helios Platform integrates optical satellite, SAR, drone, meteorological, and ground data and presents analysis results instantly on maps in response to natural-language user queries.
Helios secured 50 million yen in seed funding from Incubate Fund on October 24, 2025.
Helios has completed the development of its Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and plans to use the raised funds to accelerate product development and strengthen its technical team.
Helios was founded in 2024 and aims to develop an analysis platform based on the Large Earth Model (LEM) to integrate diverse Earth observation data.
LEO Express 3 will validate Mira’s improved systems and provide flight heritage for future Helios flights.
LEO Express 3 will provide flight heritage for multiple avionics components for future Helios flights.
Project Helios is part of Kratos' strategy to invest in rapid development of mission-critical capabilities for the warfighter.
The lander and Helios will be launched by medium or heavy rockets capable of delivering 3 tons of payload to the lunar surface.
Impulse Space plans to combine Helios with its lander for moon landings.
Impulse Space is developing a kick stage known as 'Helios' to transport payloads to orbits unreachable by standard rockets.
Once deployed in LEO, Helios can transport the lander to Low Lunar Orbit (LLO) within one week.
Helios utilizes a high delta-V capability to avoid the need for on-orbit refueling.
After reaching LLO, the lander will separate from Helios and descend to the lunar surface.
Helios aims to shorten the time required to reach GEO with larger payloads compared to Mira, using liquid oxygen and liquid methane as propellants.
Helios will launch on a standard medium- or heavy-lift rocket.
The proposed mission architecture does not require in-space refueling due to Helios’s high delta-v capabilities.
The lunar lander will separate from Helios and descend to the surface of the Moon.
The proposed mission architecture combines Impulse’s Helios kick stage and a new lunar lander to be developed in-house.
Impulse’s lunar lander will ride as a payload on Helios.