Kea Aerospace
Kea Aerospace builds solar-powered drones that fly in the stratosphere for months, delivering satellite-quality imagery over farms, forests and coastlines at a fraction of the cost.
- Founded:
- 2018
- Location:
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Website:
- keaaerospace.com
- Vehicle:
- Atmos
- Used for:
- Agriculture, environment, defence
- What they do:
- Solar-powered stratospheric drones for Earth observation
Kea Aerospace
Kea Aerospace builds solar-powered drones that fly in the stratosphere for months, delivering satellite-quality imagery over farms, forests and coastlines at a fraction of the cost.
Kea Aerospace is building Atmos — a solar-powered, autonomous aircraft designed to fly in the stratosphere for months at a time. Operating above weather and commercial air traffic, the platform provides satellite-quality imagery at a fraction of the cost, with the persistence that satellites cannot match.
Founded by Mark Rocket, Kea Aerospace operates from Christchurch and has completed test flights of scaled prototypes. The company targets agriculture, environmental monitoring, and defence applications.
Why Noteworthy
Kea Aerospace sits at the convergence of New Zealand's aerospace capability and its environmental monitoring needs. A stratospheric drone that can watch a farm, a forest, or a fishery continuously is the kind of dual-use technology New Zealand is uniquely positioned to build.
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