Product profile
Freefly Astro Max
Freefly Astro Max is Freefly compact industrial drone platform for professional aerial work. It packages the Astro aircraft with controller, payload mount...
Facts
- Company
- Freefly Systems
- Product type
- uav_package
- Status
- commercial
- Website
- https://store.freeflysystems.com/products/astro-max
About Freefly Astro Max
Astro Max packages Freefly’s compact multirotor with folding landing gear, a payload isolator, Skyview mount, Pilot Pro controller and RTK ground station. Its open payload interface supports professional cameras and sensors for mapping, inspection and custom aerial applications.
The aircraft runs Auterion enterprise software and provides precise low-speed control around infrastructure. Mapping packages integrate a 61-megapixel Sony ILX-LR1 camera and gimbal. Freefly supplies travel cases, batteries, support documentation and Blue UAS-compatible configurations for government customers.
Market context
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Summary
Type: UAV
Core: Industrial payloads
Function: Mapping
Audience: Inspectors
Specifications
- battery_bus_voltage
- 18 to 25.2 V battery voltage bus V
- cad_resources
- STEP CAD resources and dimension table for Astro Max airframe
- flight_control_system
- Freefly custom-designed Skynode running Auterion Enterprise PX4 with Auterion Mission Control and Suite
- flight_time_minutes
- 37 minutes with no payload; 18 minutes with 3,000 g payload min
- market_availability
- Astro Max specs and support pages maintained by Freefly
- max_takeoff_weight
- 8,700 g conditional on altitude
- onboard_compute
- 1.8 GHz Quad Cortex-A53 processor; 4 GB RAM
- operational_role
- Higher-payload industrial Astro variant for mapping and inspection payloads
- payload_capacity_kg
- 3.0 kg payload capacity kg
- payload_options
- LR1 Payload, Gimbaled Alpha 7R IVA Mapping Camera, Ventus OGI, Wiris Pro, Flux O1, Flux L1, Flux H1, Sentera 6X variants, Sentera 65R, and Hovermap ST-X
- price
- Astro Max $22,995.00; Astro Max (NDAA/Blue) $28,995.00 USD
- software_interfaces
- PX4 and MAVSDK compatible; onboard apps can run in Docker and connect via Ethernet/serial
- task_scope
- Industrial mapping, inspection, LiDAR scanning, photogrammetry, and payload-based aerial data capture
- temperature_range
- -20 to 50 C operating temperature; IP43 tested ingress protection
- weight_g
- Typical standard empty weight 3,523 g g
Operations
- Product detail
- package, Inspection Drone, enterprise, fielded_enterprise_uas, Astro aircraft package, inspection_drone, Inspection Drone, drone, Inspection Drone, drone, inspection_drone, 2026-07-26, drone
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Aerial Precision and Freefly advance FLUX on-site LiDAR workflow — 2025-11-27
- Freefly issues Astro FPV live video latency service bulletin — 2025-11-24
- Freefly documents Astro Blue UAS approval and compliant Astro configurations — 2025-11-10
- Esri adds Freefly Astro Max to secure ArcGIS drone workflow — 2025-02-20
- Freefly Astro selected in DIU Blue UAS Refresh — 2025-02-14
- Freefly releases Astro Prime and Blue configuration support through Astro v1.6 — 2024-07-01
- Freefly and Auterion expand Astro around open standards and Auterion Suite — 2022-11-11
- Freefly and Auterion launch Astro enterprise drone solution — 2020-09-30