ASTRO Systems
Astra V1

Our first prototype, showcasing proof of concept and ease of deployment.

V1 existed to answer one question: does a circular wing carry its own weight in forward flight, on an airframe we can build ourselves? Everything on it came off a shelf or off a print bed.

The bare airfoil ring on a hall floor beneath an American flag, before the airframe went in Looking down on the hexacopter airframe seated inside the finished white airfoil ring, surrounded by tools A team member kneeling to work on the airframe inside the ring during the build The airframe on grass beside a laptop running ArduPilot Mission Planner, showing the aircraft disarmed The finished Astra V1 sitting inside its airfoil ring beneath an American flag The airframe on wet pavement at low sun, out for a flight test