Facts

• Segment: Aerial
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2011
• Website: https://freeflysystems.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Supply chain relationships
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

Freefly Systems develops professional drones, camera movement systems and payload tools for cinematography, mapping and industrial inspection. Its Astro line provides a U. S. -made commercial UAV platform with RTK positioning, LTE connectivity and mission-computer integration.

Market context

Freefly anchors the non-Chinese enterprise drone stack with U. S. manufacturing, open payload integration, RTK positioning, and professional imaging heritage between cinematography and industrial inspection.

Products

• Alta X
• Freefly Astro
• Freefly Astro Max

Facts

• Website: https://freeflysystems.com/
• HQ: Woodinville, United States
• Founded: 2011
• Segment: Aerial

Professional drone and camera movement systems company

Freefly Systems develops professional drones, camera movement systems and payload platforms for film, mapping, inspection and enterprise missions.

• Target environment: Film production, aerial cinematography, mapping missions, inspection sites, enterprise drone operations and payload test environments.
• Deployment model: UAV and camera movement hardware supply through drone platforms, gimbals, payloads and professional imaging systems.
• Customer context: Cinematographers, drone service providers, mapping teams, inspection operators and enterprise aerial imaging users.
• Workflow context: Aerial imaging, payload flight, mapping, inspection, stabilized camera movement and professional drone operation.
• Commercial maturity: Commercial professional drone and imaging systems company with established products for production and enterprise customers.
• Market position: Professional UAV and camera movement company serving aerial imaging and payload-carrying drone applications.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on payload needs, flight endurance, regulatory access, operator skill, camera integration and customer support.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes professional drones, camera gimbals, aerial cinematography, mapping UAVs and payload platforms.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2025-11-24 - Capability - Freefly issues Astro FPV live video latency service bulletin - Freefly issued a service bulletin for FPV live video latency affecting Astro FPV accessories and Alta X Gen2.
• 2025-11-10 - Regulatory - Freefly documents Astro Blue UAS approval and compliant Astro configurations - Freefly documented that Astro had been approved by DIU and added to the Blue sUAS List.
• 2025-02-20 - Partnership - Esri adds Freefly Astro Max to secure ArcGIS drone workflow - Esri announced secure drone workflows using Freefly Systems' Astro Max with ArcGIS Flight.
• 2025-02-14 - Regulatory - Freefly Astro selected in DIU Blue UAS Refresh - The Defense Innovation Unit selected Freefly Astro in the 2025 Blue UAS Refresh list.
• 2025-01-01 - Product Launch - Freefly makes Astro Max available as compact industrial drone platform - Freefly made Astro Max available as a compact industrial drone platform with Pilot Pro controller and Standard Remot…
• 2024-07-01 - Product Launch - Freefly releases Astro Prime and Blue configuration support through Astro v1.6 - Freefly's Astro v1.6 release added support for Astro Prime, Blue configurations, and the LR1 Payload.
• 2022-11-11 - Partnership - Freefly and Auterion expand Astro around open standards and Auterion Suite - Auterion highlighted Freefly's Astro as a ruggedized drone enabling enterprise workflows through standardized inter…
• 2020-09-30 - Product Launch - Freefly and Auterion launch Astro enterprise drone solution - Freefly Systems and Auterion announced Astro, an enterprise drone for mapping, inspection, first responders, and infrastructure…

Team

• Tabb Firchau - CEO - Adds founder/operator context for Freefly's Astro, Alta and professional UAV platform strategy.

Supply chain relationships

• Doodle Labs - Mesh Rider Radio - Doodle Labs Mesh Rider radio is used with Freefly Astro for industrial and government UAS communications.

Relationships

• Auterion - technology_partner - Freefly Astro uses Auterion Enterprise PX4, Auterion Mission Control, and Auterion Suite as part of its flight-control and fleet-management stack.

Context tags

• Drone OEM - Stack Layer - Wave 24 large mixed cleanup tagging
• Enterprise drone markets - Customer Environment - Wave 24 large mixed cleanup tagging
• Commercial drone mapping and inspection - Workflow - Wave 24 large mixed cleanup tagging
• Commercial drone OEM - Peer Group - Wave 24 large mixed cleanup tagging