Heliphere designs and builds infrastructure that delivers food, water, air, energy, and materials with minimal external dependency. Every output becomes an input somewhere else.
Modern life-support depends on long, fragile logistics for water, food, power, and materials. When those links break, systems fail quickly.
Heliphere replaces dependency with closed loops that keep operating through disruption.
Energy powers water, air, and food. Food consumes CO₂ and produces oxygen. Water supports crops and materials. Waste becomes resources. The system holds because the loops reinforce each other.
Five resource loops surround the crew. The thick edges are internal — CO₂ becomes crop feedstock, urine becomes fertiliser, transpiration becomes drinking water, waste becomes energy. The thin edge is the point: resupply, designed to shrink.
Values are per person per day, drawn from NASA’s Baseline Values and Assumptions Document and ISS life-support heritage. Reference architecture — every value is a design target.
Each domain is a research and development focus in its own right — and a node in a larger integrated architecture. Explore any loop, or see how they all connect.
Baseload certainty for every other loop in the system.
Biological systems that produce food and clean air simultaneously.
Quality and composition control without consumables or resupply.
No wastewater — only water at different stages of the loop.
Every waste stream from every loop becomes a feedstock here.
Every Heliphere system is designed into the 20 ft ISO container — the one cargo envelope every port, crane, ship, railcar and truck on Earth is already tooled for. One standardised interface panel carries power, water, air, thermal and data between modules, so a site is configured, not constructed: truck in another box, connect the jumpers, and the loop grows.
Forward operating bases, remote installations, and contested environments where supply chain exposure is a strategic liability that cannot be accepted.
Scientific stations, deep-sea habitats, and space analogues that require self-contained life support for extended missions without resupply windows.
Continuity planning for utilities, hospitals, and data centres that cannot afford dependency on fragile external networks during disruption events.
Remote towns, island settlements, and development contexts where the economics of grid extension never arrive but resilience remains essential.