Company Information
Skyfront was founded on January 2014. The company is based in Menlo Park, CA, USA . The number of employees in Skyfront is less than 10. Skyfront builds long-range unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance and commercial applications.Here is how Skyfront describes itself: "Skyfront manufactures long range/endurance hybrid electric unmanned drones for surveillance, delivery and LiDAR mapping missions."
Funding & investors
Skyfront has received 5 rounds of venture funding. The total funding amount is around $2.7M.- Acorn Pacific Ventures (Micro vc)
- Chaac Ventures (Micro vc)
- Drone.VC (Angel group)
- David E. Weekly (Angel)
- Grape Arbor VC (Angel group)
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News
Skyfront - Blog
- CEO Troy Mestler talks with Jason San Souci about the future of BVLOS drones
- Skyfront Perimeter 8 drone flies from sunrise to sunset: 13 hours 4 minutes
- Skyfront First to Resupply US Navy Submarine from another moving ship
- Synthetic Aperture RADAR integrated onto Perimeter 8 UAS
- Skyfront Drones First Ever sUAS to Resupply US Navy Submarine
- Skyfront performs first civilian BVLOS flight in US
CEO Troy Mestler discusses Skyfront’s mission, its recent flight time record, and where he sees the drone industry going. READ MORE.The post CEO Troy Mestler talks with Jason San Souci about the future of BVLOS drones appeared first on Skyfront | Leaders in long endurance hybrid drones.
The Skyfront Perimeter 8 drone set another world record, flying 13 hours and 4 minutes and traveling 205 miles… READ MORE.The post Skyfront Perimeter 8 drone flies from sunrise to sunset: 13 hours 4 minutes appeared first on Skyfront | Leaders in long endurance hybrid drones.
The US Navy recently used the Skyfront Perimeter to deliver a payload to the ballistic missile submarine USS Henry M. Jackson at sea… READ MORE.The post Skyfront First to Resupply US Navy Submarine from another moving ship appeared first on Skyfront | Leaders in long endurance hybrid drones.
Skyfront has partnered with IMSAR to integrate a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging system into Skyfront’s Perimeter 8 long endurance hybrid multirotor UAS (unmanned aerial system). IMSAR’s NSP-3 SAR/MTI radar is a multimode, low-SWaP (Size, Weight, and Power) radar system that can be used to provide Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities in the land and maritime domains. [...]The post Synthetic Aperture RADAR integrated onto Perimeter 8 UAS appeared first on Skyfront | Leaders in long endurance hybrid drones.
In a first for the Navy, a quadcopter drone was flown more than a mile from shore on Oahu to deliver a 5-pound payload of circuit cards, medical supplies and food items to the submarine USS Hawaii in a potentially radical new way to provide logistics resupply of small items to subs at sea, officials said. [...]The post Skyfront Drones First Ever sUAS to Resupply US Navy Submarine appeared first on Skyfront | Leaders in long endurance hybrid drones.
Skyfront’s Perimeter 4 long-range hybrid gas-electric drone successfully performed the first civilian beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) flight without visual observers under the FAA’s Part 107 rules. This flight is a significant step toward the safe integration of unmanned aerial vehicles into the national airspace. READ MORE.The post Skyfront performs first civilian BVLOS flight in US appeared first on Skyfront | Leaders in long endurance hybrid drones.
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