ASTRO Systems
Astra V2

Our entry into the DARPA Heavy Lift Challenge, improving on scale and manufacturing.

V2 took the circular wing to a larger airframe and out of the lab. Everything on it had to pack down, travel, and go back together by hand on a competition field, which is a different problem from making it fly.

The ASTRO Systems team with service members at the DARPA Heavy Lift Challenge
The team's pit under the competition tent, the Astra wing laid out across the table A team member checking the V2 airframe on the airfield, a hangar behind him Two team members kneeling to set the aircraft up on the grass before a flight A remove-before-flight tag hanging off the airframe beside a laptop running Mission Planner Astra V2 out on the grass, an Air Force hangar across the field behind it