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Asteria Aerospace Limited (formerly Asteria Aerospace Private Limited) is a robotics and artificial intelligence company that designs and manufactures drones.[1] Its headquarters are located in Bengaluru, India.[2]

Asteria
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryRobotics and Artificial intelligence
Founded2011; 13 years ago (2011) in India
FoundersNihar Vartak
Neel Mehta[3]
Headquarters,
Area served
India
ProductsSkyDeck
Asteria Mission Control
OwnerReliance Industries Limited
ParentJio Platforms
Websiteasteria.co.in

History

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In June 2011, Neel Mehta and Nihar Vartak founded Asteria Aerospace with the idea of developing drones for defence applications.[4] Later, Reliance Industries’ arm Jio Platforms acquired a majority stake of the company in December, 2019.[5]

It has built three Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) certified drones including A200, which recieved the India's first micro category drone certification in October, 2022.[6][7] The other two drones are A200-XT and A410-XT.[8]

Technologies

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In March 2022, It launched SkyDeck an end-to-end cloud-based drone software platform that has a unified dashboard and offers services for drone fleet management which include scheduling and executing the flights, data processing, visualization and AI-based analysis of aerial data collected using drones.[9]

Services

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References

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  1. ^ "Asteria Aerospace Limited; Financial Statements 2022-23" (PDF). Reliance Industries Limited.
  2. ^ "India's drone tech sector set to soar in coming years, says Reliance firm Asteria Aerospace". The Hindu. 25 July 2024.
  3. ^ "India gambles on building a leading drone industry". BBC. 4 November 2022.
  4. ^ "Asteria: Innovating in drones with AI, 5G, Cloud". Times of India. 26 April 2023.
  5. ^ "RIL buys controlling stake in drone startup Asteria Aerospace". Business Standard. 14 December 2019.
  6. ^ "This Company Wins India's First Micro Category Drone Certification". NDTV. 6 October 2022.
  7. ^ "Asteria Aerospace receives India's first micro category drone certification from DGCA". The Economic Times. 6 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Asteria Aerospace recieves DGCA type certification for its A200-XT drone". The Economic Times. 16 January 2023.
  9. ^ "Asteria Aerospace launches drone software platform SkyDeck". Deccan Herald. 24 March 2022.