
The Air Traffic Control System for the Interplanetary Civilization.
Three provisional patents filed with the USPTO, with a non-provisional utility application planned for 2027
Helios Control v4.0 — Operational Prototype: Future space missions will not be managed one spacecraft at a time — or from one planet.
The Helios Control v4.0 technology demonstrator is a fully operational prototype running in closed-loop simulation. The constraint reasoning engine, predictive digital twin, graduated autonomy modes, mission planning preflight system, trajectory collision warning, and multi-domain asset coordination are all working now. This is not a mockup. This is not a wireframe. This is the operational system at Technology Readiness Level 4.
Status: Active Development | TRL 4 | Running Now
WHAT THE DEMONSTRATOR SHOWS
Mission Dashboard
Real-time telemetry from multiple simultaneous assets across eight selectable operational domains — Lunar Surface, Lunar Orbit, Cislunar, Earth LEO, MEO, HEO/GEO, Mars Surface, and Mars Orbit. Click any asset on the surface map or asset list to pull full telemetry into the status panel — battery, signal, task, autonomy mode, position, radiation, and comms status, all live. Dual expandable maps with full-screen mode.
God's Eye 3D View
Full three-dimensional solar system with tracked assets on realistic orbital paths. Clickable assets with detail panels showing orbital parameters, period, inclination, and current phase angle in standard metric units. Adjustable simulation speed from 1x to 1000x.
Mission Planner with Environmental Preflight
Enter departure base, destination, waypoints, and dwell time. AMOCS calculates time of flight, distance in kilometers, battery budget, and bingo time — the latest possible departure to guarantee safe return with margin. A full environmental threat assessment runs automatically: space weather Kp index, solar radiation in mSv/hr, micrometeorite flux, galactic cosmic ray levels, NEO conjunction status, and route hazard zone intersection using precise line-segment geometry. Results: GO, CAUTION, or NO-GO with success probability percentage and specific warning flags before any asset moves.
Trajectory Collision Advance Warning System (TCAWS)
Runs continuously in the background projecting all surface and orbital asset positions forward in time to detect potential conjunctions before they occur. Three threat categories: surface-to-surface asset convergence, trajectory-based hazard zone approach, and orbital conjunction between assets. Warnings appear immediately in the Action Queue with APPROVE and REJECT buttons. A red indicator appears in the top status bar when active conjunctions are pending.
Rendezvous Engine & Autonomous Docking
Full Engine mode searches a launch window using a Lambert universal-variable solver and returns complete departure and arrival burn solutions, broken into radial/along-track/cross-track components. An ADI-style Flight Display — modeled directly on an aircraft attitude director indicator — presents these as a centered cross-pointer guidance instrument, with a side-by-side V-bar/R-bar tracking map and live telemetry during final approach. Proximity operations run on Clohessy-Wiltshire relative-motion physics with gated waypoints; a multi-factor identification module authenticates the target asset before the autonomous docking sequence is permitted to proceed. This isn't a canned animation — every burn, trajectory, and docking state shown is computed live from the orbital elements entered.
Graduated Autonomy
Three operational modes — Monitor Only, Recommend, and Supervised Autonomy. In Supervised Autonomy mode, LOW-risk actions execute automatically. MEDIUM and HIGH-risk actions escalate for operator approval. Watch system behavior change measurably across identical fault scenarios. Switch modes in real time from the operations panel.
Autonomous Decisions with Full Audit Trail
The AI detects anomalies, generates recommendations, and escalates high-risk decisions to the operator. The decision log records both the AI recommendation and the operator's response — approved or rejected, with timestamp and outcome — providing a complete audit trail for every consequential decision in the mission.
Digital Twin
60-minute forward simulation of mission state under current conditions. Scenario-based rehearsal validates system response to solar storms, relay failures, battery faults, and nominal operations. The same engine powers both the live Mission Planner preflight and the real-time forecast dashboard.
Operations Panel
Ten functional panels — Autonomy Control, Event Injection, Digital Twin, Comms and Command Uplink, Mission Rehearsal, Mission Scorecard, Autonomous Decisions, Operator Log, Mission Planner and Rendezvous and Flight Display. Each expands inline without leaving the operations screen. No popups. No separate windows.
APPLICATION AREAS:
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Earth LEO, MEO, HEO, and GEO satellite fleet coordination
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Cislunar traffic coordination and domain awareness
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Lunar surface multi-asset mission coordination
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Lunar orbit and Gateway operations support
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Mars surface and orbital autonomous operations
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Mission planning and environmental preflight analysis
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Human-robot teaming for planetary surface EVA
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Satellite servicing proximity operations coordination
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Space Force cislunar domain awareness integration
REQUEST A DEMO:
We demonstrate Helios Control to NASA program managers, CLPS providers, Space Force researchers, and strategic partners on request. The system runs on a laptop and can be demonstrated from anywhere.
Contact: contact@helioswerks.com
Dashboard View

God's Eye View

Mission Planning View

Operations Panel View

