Voyager
Voyager is Saildrone mid-sized uncrewed surface vehicle for coastal surveillance and nearshore mapping. It supports maritime domain awareness, seabed characterization and persistent ISR missions where operators need autonomous coverage close to shore.
Facts
- Company: Saildrone
- Product type: Uncrewed Surface Vehicle
- Status: Commercial
- Capability focus: Generalist
- Website: https://www.saildrone.com/platform/voyager
Market context
Voyager is Saildrone long-endurance autonomous surface vehicle for high-latitude and extreme-environment ocean missions.
- Target environment: Open ocean, high-latitude waters and extreme marine environments.
- Workflow context: Long-endurance ocean data collection, environmental monitoring and maritime domain awareness using wind and solar-powered USV.
- Customer context: Oceanographic researchers, defence customers and environmental monitoring agencies.
- Deployment model: Commercial autonomous surface vehicle with global ocean deployment.
- Commercial maturity: Mature USV platform with extensive operational history in extreme environments.
- Adoption constraints: Wind and solar propulsion limits speed. Best suited to long-duration monitoring missions.
- Market position: Saildrone largest and most capable USV for high-latitude and extreme-environment missions.
- Adjacent products: Saildrone Surveyor, Explorer, autonomous USVs
Workflow
Long-endurance ocean data collection, environmental monitoring and maritime domain awareness using wind and solar-powered USV.
Deployment environment
Open ocean, high-latitude waters and extreme marine environments.
Specifications
- Endurance Profile: Multi-month operations
- Status: Commercially deployed
- Form Type: Powered ocean drone
- Length: 10 m
- Propulsion: Diesel-electric with wind propulsion assist
- Radar: Marine radar
- Power: Diesel generator with battery buffer
- Sensors Summary: AIS transceiver, PTZ infrared camera, radar, sound velocity profiler and winch, seafloor mapping sonar
- Camera: PTZ infrared camera
- Operational Role: Ocean survey, maritime surveillance, defence applications
- Workflow Focus: Seafloor mapping, maritime domain awareness, defence ISR
- Operational Environment: Open ocean, global
- Autonomy Model: Autonomous waypoint navigation
- Communication: Satellite (Starlink), radio
- Deployment Maturity: Commercially deployed
Tags
- Peer Group: Maritime USV
- Workflow: Maritime domain awareness, Marine data collection
- Capability: Autonomous navigation
- Deployment Environment: Outdoor field environment
- Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
- Commercial Stage: Commercial product
Articles
- 2026-04-07 - Note - Maritime autonomy is broadening
Timeline / Research
- 2025-05-13 - Funding - Saildrone raises USD 60M for European maritime autonomy - The capital supported a Copenhagen headquarters and operations hub for European defense and security work. Saildrone planned to deploy the…
- 2025-02-03 - Deployment - Saildrone deploys 20 Voyager USVs for Operation Southern Spear - The mission used the largest Voyager fleet Saildrone had fielded to that date. The deployment supported maritime domain awarenes…
- 2023-11-07 - Regulatory - Saildrone Voyager Is First USV to Earn ABS Interim Classification - The classification applied to the 10-meter Saildrone Voyager USV. Voyager supports nearshore mapping, maritime security, and…
- 2023-09-13 - Deployment - Saildrone Voyager launches for U.S. 4th Fleet Windward Stack - Voyager USVs launched from NAS Key West's Mole Pier and Truman Harbor. The launch supported U.S. 4th Fleet Operation Windward Stac…
Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
- Active Robot Fleet - 20 Voyager USVs deployed for Operation Southern Spear - 2025-02-03 - Joint Interagency Task Force South - maritime domain awareness - Saildrone deployed 20 Voyager uncrewed surface vehicles for Oper…
- Named Operational Deployment - Voyager USVs launched for U.S. 4th Fleet Windward Stack - 2023-09-13 - U.S. 4th Fleet - maritime domain awareness - Saildrone Voyager USVs launched from Naval Air Station Key West for U.S.…
Comparable Systems
- Explorer - Saildrone - Uncrewed Surface Vehicle
- Surveyor - Saildrone - Uncrewed Surface Vehicle
- Mirage - Saronic - Usv
- Quickfish - Seasats - Usv
- Corsair - Saronic - Usv
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