Facts

• Company: Freefly Systems
• Product type: UAV
• Status: commercial
• Website: https://freeflysystems.com/astro

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Freefly Astro Max is Freefly compact industrial drone platform for professional aerial work. It packages the Astro aircraft with controller, payload mount and field hardware for mapping, inspection and commercial missions.

Overview

Freefly Astro Max is Freefly compact industrial drone platform for professional aerial work. It packages the Astro aircraft with controller, payload mount and field hardware for mapping, inspection and commercial missions.

Market context

Freefly Astro Max is a heavier-lift industrial drone for mapping, inspection, LiDAR and heavy sensor workflows within the Freefly trusted-drone ecosystem.

• Target environment: Outdoor industrial sites, infrastructure and heavy-sensor aerial work environments.
• Workflow context: Heavy-payload aerial mapping, LiDAR capture, OGI inspection and industrial sensor deployment.
• Customer context: Enterprise operators needing higher-payload trusted-drone capability for heavy sensor payloads.
• Deployment model: Commercial UAV within the Freefly U.S.-made aircraft stack.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially available heavy-payload trusted-drone platform.
• Adoption constraints: Larger airframe requires more launch space.
• Market position: A heavier-lift trusted-drone platform within Freefly U.S.-made aircraft stack.
• Adjacent products: Freefly Astro, Dragonfish, industrial mapping UAVs

Audience

Inspectors

Workflow

Heavy-payload aerial mapping, LiDAR capture, OGI inspection and industrial sensor deployment.

Capability

Autonomous navigation

Deployment environment

Outdoor industrial sites, infrastructure and heavy-sensor aerial work environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Inspectors
• Workflow: Heavy-payload aerial mapping, LiDAR capture, OGI inspection and industrial sensor deployment.
• Capability: Autonomous navigation
• Deployment environment: Outdoor industrial sites, infrastructure and heavy-sensor aerial work environments.

Specifications

• Max Takeoff Weight: 8,700 g conditional on altitude
• Payload Capacity: 3,000 g
• Weight: Typical standard empty weight 3,523 g
• Flight Time: 37 minutes with no payload; 18 minutes with 3,000 g payload
• 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
• Task Scope: Industrial mapping, inspection, LiDAR scanning, photogrammetry, and payload-based aerial data capture
• Operational Role: Higher-payload industrial Astro variant for mapping and inspection payloads
• Flight Control System: Freefly custom-designed Skynode running Auterion Enterprise PX4 with Auterion Mission Control and Suite
• Temperature Range: -20 to 50 C operating temperature; IP43 tested ingress protection
• Market Availability: Astro Max specs and support pages maintained by Freefly

Tags

• Peer Group: Industrial mapping drone
• Workflow: Industrial inspection
• Capability: Autonomous navigation
• Deployment Environment: Outdoor field environment
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

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• Freefly Astro - Freefly Systems - UAV
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• FIXAR 007 LE - FIXAR - UAV
• NOA Hybrid - Acecore Technologies - UAV
• DJI Mavic 3 Pro - DJI - UAV
• Zetona - Acecore Technologies - UAV
• Dragonfish Series - Autel Robotics - UAV