The Helios Prototype was the fourth and final aircraft developed as part of an evolutionary series of solar- and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicles. AeroVironment, Inc. developed the vehicles under NASA's Environmental Research Aircraft and …

Nov 3, 2024 · Helios 1 was a joint German-American deep-space mission to study the main solar processes and solar-terrestrial relationships.

Jun 28, 2017 · Helios Prototype 03 (HP03) was the last generation in a ground-breaking family of remotely piloted, solar-powered flying wing aircraft that were part of NASA’s Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) Program.

On Dec. 10, 1974, NASA launched Helios 1, the first of two spacecraft to make close observations of the Sun. In one of the largest international efforts at the time, the Federal Republic of Germany, also known as West Germany, provided the spacecraft, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, had overall responsibility for U ...

The Helios project was a joint venture of West Germany's space agency DLR (70 percent share) and NASA (30 percent share). As built by the main contractor, Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm , they were the first space probes built outside the United …

Aug 7, 2014 · The two primary goals of the Helios Prototype development are to demonstrate sustained flight at an altitude near 100,000 feet and flying non-stop for at least 24 hours. The Helios Prototype was a remotely piloted flying wing aircraft developed under NASA's Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) project.

Aug 30, 2023 · The solar-powered Helios Prototype flying wing frames two modified F-15 research aircraft in a hangar at NASA's Dryden Flight Research... The Helios Prototype aircraft during initial climb-out to the west over the Pacific Ocean.

Helios, either of two unmanned solar probes developed by West Germany in cooperation with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Helios 1 and Helios 2 were launched by NASA from the John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Dec. 10, 1974, and Jan. 15