1. TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP
SAVE SIGNIFICANT COST
HELIX saves significant cost across development/operations and visibly reduces total cost of ownership
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Assess your mission savings
Saves significant cost, time and effort. Contact us to discuss what it can save for your mission.
2. rapid development
SHORT TIME TO MARKET
Facilitates rapid development of space solutions, helping to avoid costly delays and significantly improve time to market
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Product
Flightkit
Flightkit is a component-based development platform, designed to build unique flight software packages for any mission, regardless of its objective or scale – whether it’s a single nanosatellite or a large constellation.
3. End-to-end solution
MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR RESOURCES
End-to-end solution that connects the currently disjointed, fragmented and inefficient space software systems
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How to Future-Proof Your Space Software System
Future-proofing you space software system and making sure it lasts is by no means easy, but launch after launch we are proving that the right products, technology and expertise are exactly what’s needed for success.
4. SINGLE SPACE SYSTEM
TIGHT INTEGRATION BETWEEN SPACE AND GROUND SYSTEMS
Tight integration between products at the architectural level for significantly improved efficiency, simplicity and clarity
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Benefits of Integrated Space-Ground Software Systems
The ground and space segments of a satellite project are often developed independently of each other and at different life cycles of the mission. Find out about an alternative model-based approach which support for quick and easy integration of flight and ground segments.
5. SCALABILITY
FROM A SINGLE CUBESAT INTO A CONSTELLATION
Highly scalable to support evolving space systems, easy and straightforward to extend or build new HELIX applications
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What does “component-based” software really mean?
Components are the central elements of HELIX. Software systems on many missions perform a number of similar tasks which are provided in HELIX as library components to allows users to quickly cover basic functionality of the system and focus on the development of bespoke components, unique to their particular mission.
6. Platform- and vendor independence
MULTIPLE HARDWARE VENDORS
Platform- and vendor independent, allowing for a variety of different subsystems, even within a single large constellation
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Say No to Vendor Lock-In: Benefits of an Open and Modular Software System
As a service provider, you may want to take advantage of price competition between hardware manufacturers and make your constellations heterogeneous, comprising satellites from different manufacturers with different capabilities. Learn more about avoiding vendor lock-in.
7. SIMPLE RE-USE
SAVE TIME ON FUTURE WORK
Simple re-use existing software on new missions, even if the hardware is different, avoiding the need to start from scratch
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Developing Flight Software for Large Satellite Systems
As the New Space market continues to grow, more and more satellite applications require a large number of spacecraft. Find out how to efficiently design flight software to support high-volume development.
8. HERITAGE
LAUNCHED MISSIONS
Proven heritage and deep expertise on best space software design practices with over 50 missions in orbit
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Launched missions
Over 50 missions in space
Our technology is flight-proven with 50 missions in orbit flying our software.
9. FLEXIBILITY
EXTEND YOUR SYSTEM
Exceptionally flexible to support extensive configuration or integration with 3rd party software
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Product
HELIX OPS: COMING SOON
A highly flexible and tightly integrated graphical environment for all aspects of mission operations
10. Architectural clarity
CLEVER SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE
Architectural clarity for better mission visibility to avoid higher and significant risks at later stages
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The Future of Satellite Software Technologies
The satellite industry is booming like never before and there is no indication that this rapid and sustained growth may halt in the coming years. In this blog post we take a look at the future of satellite software technologies, explore where the industry is heading and how we – as a space software provider – plan to address these challenges.