Frederick Thompson
Founder & CTO
I am the founder and CTO of Heliofold US, a materials-led company developing Bifacia™, a transparent, space-grade colourless polyimide substrate for flexible spacecraft solar arrays.
I hold an integrated Engineering degree from Cardiff University. That training in materials, mechanics, and systems design informs our work on substrates that must endure atomic oxygen, thermal cycling, and repeated flex deployment in low Earth orbit.
Heliofold US has a single, deliberate mission: to advance a single material platform, Bifacia™, so that orbital power systems can harvest more energy from Earth-reflected sunlight (albedo).
By opening rear-side optical access for bifacial cells, Bifacia™ turns the substrate from inactive mass into part of the generating system, while retaining the mechanical stability and process logic expected of a polyimide platform.
Our aim over the next 24 months is to make Bifacia™ the industry standard substrate for LEO/MEO solar arrays.
