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Helio Corporation Announces Successful In-Flight Utilization of Its Radar Antennas Aboard NASA's Europa Clipper
Helio Corporation Announces Successful In-Flight Utilization of Its Radar Antennas Aboard NASA's Europa Clipper.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n Helio Corporation Announces Successful In-Flight Utilization of Its Radar Antennas Aboard NASA's Europa Clipper\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n\r\nHelio Corporation Announces Successful In-Flight Utilization of Its Radar Antennas Aboard NASA's Europa Clipper\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis represents a major technical and strategic validation of Heliospace’s engineering, technology and contributions to space exploration Berkeley, CA, Aug. 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Heliospace Corp. (OTC:HLEO), an aerospace company specializing in cutting-edge technologies and mission-critical services that empower space exploration and innovation, has announced a significant milestone with the successful in-flight operation of its radar antennas aboard the NASA Europa Clipper spacecraft during a high-profile Mars flyby conducted on March 1, 2025. 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. Once at Europa, the REASON instrument will use multiple radar frequencies to see through the moon’s icy shell where it may detect liquid water, including a subsurface ocean. Enroute to Europa, the mission uses several flybys around the Earth and Mars as “gravity assists” to bend the spacecraft trajectory as part of its overall course to Jupiter. During a flyby of Mars on March 1 of 2025, the REASON radar was measured in its ability to explore the Martian subsurface using the same radio waves it will employ at Europa. According to NASA and the REASON science team, the instrument performed just as expected, thus validating the design and performance of the Heliospace built deployable antennas, as well as the rest of the REASON instrument. Heliospace built two different types of deployable radar antennas for the Europa Clipper mission: two High Frequency (HF) antennas, which deploy to over 55 feet 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, providing a unique, low mass solution. Heliospace co-founder and CEO Greg Delory stated, “This was a crucial operati...