Freefly Astro Max Drone with Pilot Pro Controller, NDAA/Blue

Astro Max is Freefly's ultimate compact industrial drone platform. This model has special hardware and software making it both NDAA compliant and DIU Blue approved. Freefly understands the need for quality tools. For more than 10 years, Freefly aircraft have carried high end imagers for industry and high-end productions around the world. It carries valuable payloads in high-pressure situations. We understand the need for flexibility, so Astro's interface specs are open, making it a flexible and reliable tool to get your new ideas in the air. - Astro Drone -Compact Industrial PlatformThe Strong Silent Type.

Astro helps you do your best work. Astro helps you do your best work. Freefly's latest commercial drone platform with Sony LR1, Pilot Pro, Doodle Labs Radio, RTK, LTE cloud connectivity, mission computer, AuterionOS and more. Astro is backed by the team at Freefly with 100, 000+ successful commercial drone flights. From 0 To 35lbs Payload... We Have You Covered! Freefly is creating the world's most productive drone ecosystem. Freefly defines and shares open industry standards to ensure maximum compatibility and value to the end user.

Our controllers, quick releases, and gimbals are used across the industry. Props To The PropsFor max flight time you want to run the largest props possible. Astro uses 21 inch props on a drone body that's only 14 inches square. 96% of our total area is props! So why doesn't every drone do this? It's hard! As you increase prop size it becomes more and more difficult to accelerate and decelerate the prop. Ever notice how FPV drones use absurdly small props? They trade prop size / flight time for control bandwidth.

On Astro we spent years developing motor drive HW and control algorithms that allow us to have huge, slow-spinning props with incredible stability. This allows Astro long flight times, incredible precision, and super low noise footprint. Superlight BatteriesAstro features the latest in 21700 round cell lithium ion battery technology. As the battery industry releases new chemistry we are able to drop that new and improved tech into our SuperLight (SL8) battery platforms. SL8 Batteries have an OLED screen, comprehensive protections and diagnostics, and an integrated USB C PD port to power all your accessories in field.

Astro is designed to be able to fly on one battery in the event of a pack failure in flight and Freefly guarantees the batteries for an industry leading 500 cycles. Battery data for each pack is stored in Auterion Suite for easy fleet tracking and performance analysis. Acceleration MattersIt's easy to make a drone fly. It's very hard to make one fly well. You want your drone to be smooth, precise, and agile when needed. You need motors and motor drives that can speed / slow the motors props as quickly as possible.

During testing we were able to accelerate the motor at 40kHz/s. Any faster than this would cause the prop to start to fold up in its folding adapter. Luckily this slew rate was fast enough for Astro to fly wonderfully, but if you see fixed props or a new innovation in the prop adapter from Freefly in the future you will know why..... we are always chasing that next improvement that allows us to fly longer, faster, and more precisely than before. Smart DovetailFreefly lives to create drones, gimbals, and cameras! We want to accelerate the entire industry with our ecosystem.

Too often in the past we have had to create every part of a system from scratch which is slow and takes insane resources. As we completed each building block in our robotics ecosystem we make them available for partners to leverage. Smart dovetail was designed by Freefly to create a standard interface for payload manufacturers to allow any compliant payload to work on any compliant drone. We know that each additional payload drives the industry forward, and being able to use them across your fleet helps you get your job done. Contact us today or buy a smart dovetail integration kit to get started