Freefly Astro Max Mapping Essentials (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 Platform

The 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 Props
For 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 Batteries
Astro 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 Matters
It'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 Dovetail
Freefly 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.

RTK GPS
GPS satellites are 12,550 miles above the earth surface. Using the ublox F9p Astro is able to lock onto 20+ of these satellites and achieve a stable hover in even the windiest conditions. If this isn't quite enough performance you can add our RTK base station and the accuracy goes up 10x. Every time I watch this drone sit perfectly above a point, and think about the fact that the positional data is coming from medium earth orbit my mind is blown.

With our unique velocity clamps on Pilot Pro you can take advantage of all this precision by adjusting Astro's max velocities real time and on the fly. Cruise to your inspection location at high speed, but then click into slow mode and adjust position at .1m/s.

Astro is fast, precise, and adaptable.

61MP in Your Backpack
We started taking pictures from drones in 2003. We had small CCTV cameras duct taped to the eye pieces of the first SLRs and our max flight time was 2.5mins. Crashes were frequent, and the struggle was intense!

If you told us then we would have a drone that carried a 61mp imager, flew for over 30 mins, and could hold its position down to centimeter accuracy we would not have believed you.

Astro is the most packable drone to offer this type of flight time and resolution. Throw these 2 cases in your truck and tackle any challenge!

World's toughest drones
Our drones carry the most expensive sensors in the world and we test accordingly. Check out the testing process at Freefly.

Structural Tests
Chassis loading, hinge structural, prop adapter, blade imbalance, handle structural, landing gear load

Environmental Tests
Water ingress, Dust Ingress, Cold test, Hot Test

Electrical Tests
Skynode Test, IMU test, LTE Modem test, Short Circuit Test, Overvoltage Test, Over current Test, RF test

Material Tests
Carbon yield test, Aluminum fatigue tests, Plastic high / low temp test, plastic deformation test.

Flying Tests
Software validation test, 500 hour flight test, rate mode test, high speed test, full power test, dingbat test, aggressive maneuver's test

Control Tests
RTK test, FRX Pro test, Herelink test, Futaba test, Crossfire test, PMDDL test

Payload Tests
FLIR test, Worksell Wiris Test, A7R4 test, Nextvision Colibri test, Lidar test, Package delivery test

Software Tests
Software validation test, app test, ground station test, ecosystem tests

• 200+ Engineering Test Plans Were Completed During The Development Of Astro
• 1K+ Hours Of Flight And Simulated Flight Testing Before Launch

Made In The USA
Designed, built, flown, crashed, fixed, tested, assembled, supported in Woodinville, WA.

Skynode, Mission Control, & the Suite
A customized version of Skynode powers each Astro. Skynode gives you LTE connectivity, an onboard linux mission computer, and seamless connectivity to Auterion Mission Control and Cloud Suite. The Auterion ecosystem provides a robust, secure, and scalable drone planning, flight, and compliance management solution which is ready for the enterprise.

Testing / Cad / Customization / Training / Repair / Support

Freefly Loves Saying Yes
We built Freefly to ensure our customers outperform the market, and we have learned a simple 'yes' leads to incredible adventures.

Training
At your HQ or ours, we'll teach you best practices and how we operate to ensure the best chance at success.

Support Team
Realtime and expert help from our US-based support team.

Spare Parts
We stock all important spare parts to keep you up and running. Customers can order directly from our webstore 24 hours a day and in-stock parts will ship same or next business day.

Documentation
We pay attention to what our customers are asking and make it all available for users on our website. No "email for more info" or "our rep will contact you for details". We value efficiency and transparency.

Partners
We partner with top companies to offer more valuable and integrated packages.

Engineering Team
From custom integrations to advice on adapting your payload to an Astro, our Engineering team is available and eager to help.

Predictive Maintenance & Real Time Aircraft Monitoring
With the optional industrial package, users can have Freefly support and Auterion's predictive maintenance suite monitoring your Astro live and alerting you to any potential issues before they become real problems. Replace parts as needed, not as planned.

Ground & Pilot School. Training
The team at Freefly can teach you all our best tricks for maximizing productivity with drones. We offer customized training packages that will help operators get the job done reliably.

- Pilot Pro controller -

Complete control at your fingertips.
• Real Time Logging
• Error Reporting
• Redundant Screens
• Redundant Kill Switch

Capture more. Create faster. Work smarter.
Machined from aerospace grade aluminum and built to keep up with you day after day, sunrise to sunset, -10C to 50C, Pilot Pro is ready.

Powerful
Pilot Pro has internal batteries and external hot swap batteries for 100% uptime.

• Internal Runtime: 5hr
• Charge Time: 1hr

High Performance & High Complexity
Pilot Pro is simple and intuitive to setup and use.