Helicity Space

We are advancing a proprietary technology that efficiently converts electricity into plasma heating with a unique, practical scalability in the design to achieve fusion conditions and directly produce thrust.

This brings two major advantages. The first is an extra operational parameter, the number of plasma sources, for scaling the Lawson criterion. The second is the ability to produce thrust at low net gains before self-sustained reactor operation. Therefore, like cylinders in a car engine, our technology can be tested early, scale up with economies of scale, and achieve practical use in space before making electricity (and thrust) as a self-sustained reactor.

Helicity Space has past and ongoing collaborations with pre-eminent scientific institutes around the world including the California Institute of Technology, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Maryland in Baltimore County, Swarthmore College, the University of Wisconsin, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Tokyo.

In addition, Helicity Space is proud to be supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (DOE INFUSE) and the Limitless Space Institute’s Interstellar Initiatives (I2), as well as being members of the Fusion Industry Association (FIA), the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) and the Space Transportation Association (STA).

Our technology, the Helicity Drive, consists of scalable, fusion propulsion engines that enable safer, faster, reusable, and more fuel-efficient travel into deep space.

Fusion engines will drive fast, agile, and efficient deep space transports, enabling the way to off-world industries and mining of interplanetary resources. As humanity’s exploration of space and science expands, our ability to produce clean energy off-world and on Earth will preserve and protect the planet, ultimately ensuring survival as a human civilization.