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Mission

Our mission.

A fixed-wing platform that does not trade range against speed.

Wide-area aerial monitoring is limited today by endurance. Most survey platforms trade range against speed, so large areas take many sorties to cover and can often only be accessed by taking off in close proximity.

Mission radius1000 km
Sustained speed300 km/h

Built for when it matters.

A fixed-wing platform that does not trade range against speed, so help, supplies and eyes in the sky arrive while they still make a difference.

  • Search & rescue

    A hundred kilometres to the search area is a twenty-minute flight, not a half-day search on foot.

    Sustained speed300 km/h

  • Rapid delivery

    Blood, medicine or spare parts, carried to the places roads no longer reach.

    Mission radius1000 km

  • Rapid monitoring

    Wildfires, floods or glaciers: one flight covers ground that used to take days.

    Sorties per region1

Road to rollout.

Three reviews between the first sketch and the first flight.

  1. TBD

    Review 1

    Concept, requirements and mission profile.

  2. TBD

    Review 2

    Detailed design of airframe, propulsion and avionics.

  3. TBD

    Review 3

    Prototype built, ground tests, cleared for flight.

  4. TBD

    Rollout

    ARDEA meets the public for the first time.