Log 0412MET 04d 11:32
“We were told the far side would be quiet. Nobody mentioned that quiet has a sound, and it is the sound of your own heart.”
Priya Raman
Guest · Selene Circuit
HELIOS Voyages · Crewed passages beyond Earth
Voyages
beyond the sun.
Seven destinations, one unbroken line of flight. From a sunrise every ninety minutes to the bright, bent edge of a black hole. Scroll to depart.
- Next departure
- 14 Jan 2027
- Meridian Pad 4 · 14:20 UTC
- Guests flown
- 1,904
- 212 crewed departures
01Departure · 35,786 km
Rise beyond the blue.
Leave the only home you have known. Eleven minutes of acceleration from Meridian Pad 4, then a silence you can feel in your teeth: forty-eight sunrises in three days, cities strung like embers along the dark.
02Selene Reach · 384,400 km
The far side is quiet.
Skim ninety-two kilometres above Tycho at 1.6 km/s. Watch Earth rise, small and blue, from a suite with a window wider than a cinema screen, then step out and walk, gently, at one-sixth gravity.
Selene Circuit
Duration6 days
Crew8 + 4 staff
Peak g3.1 g
Windows14
From1,400,000 cr
Book this voyage03Ares Transit · 0.52 AU
Thirty-eight days to red.
A constant tenth of a gravity on the fusion torch turns a two-hundred-day crawl into a five-week crossing. One hour of hush at the mid-course flip, then two weeks at Jezero Landing under a butterscotch sky.
Ares Transit
Duration96 days
Crew12 + 6 staff
Peak g3.8 g
Windows22
From9,800,000 cr
Book this voyage04Ceres Meander · 2.75 AU
Thread the ruins of a world.
We cut the drive and drift, at walking pace, through the wreckage of a planet that never formed. Rock the size of cathedrals turns slowly past your window. Ceres glitters below, its salt lakes bright as struck flint.
Ceres Meander
Duration162 days
Crew10 + 6 staff
Peak g3.5 g
Windows20
From22,000,000 cr
Book this voyage05Kronos Rings · 9.55 AU
Cross the plane of the rings.
Hold station eighteen hundred kilometres above the B ring while sunlight filters through ice older than the oceans. Slip into the planet's shadow, then watch the whole system ignite at dawn.
Kronos Rings
Duration238 days
Crew8 + 6 staff
Peak g3.9 g
Windows26
From61,000,000 cr
Book this voyage06The Long Dark · 3.2 light-years
The galaxy opens like a hand.
Beyond the reach of the sun, the Lumen drive takes us to 0.47 c. Nebulae fold like silk. Four hundred billion suns turn slowly beyond the glass, and you rest in a Somna berth, dreaming in cold, unhurried time.
Interstellar cruiseLumen drive · Somna rest
Speed0.47 c
Berths6 Somna
Thrust1.0 g
Dome30
Included with Orpheus Pass. No other itinerary crosses the Long Dark.
07Orpheus Pass · Vanta-1 · 9.4 ly
A pass at the edge of light.
Vanta-1 is twelve suns of darkness, adrift and quiet. At thirty-four Schwarzschild radii the sky bends into rings, the disk sweeps past at a third of light speed, and a wire of pure gold, the photon ring, hangs around the shadow.
Orpheus Pass
Ship time6.9 yrs
Crew6 + 8 staff
Peak g1.0 g
Windows12 + gallery
From · 20.1 years pass on Earth890,000,000 cr
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Flight recorder · transcribed
Crew logs.
Every guest keeps a log. These are the entries they chose to share, unedited, timestamped to the mission clock.
Log 1187MET 61d 03:08
“Flip and burn at 02:14. Every guest was at the port windows for it. Not one phone came out. That is how I knew we had done it right.”
Cdr. Tomasz Wieland
Flight lead · Ares Transit
Log 3350MET 3.1y 22:40
“The photon ring is a line I had drawn a thousand times on whiteboards. In person it is a wire of light. I cried at the wrong moment; call it a measurement error.”
Dr. Imani Adeyemi
Astrophysicist · Orpheus Pass
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