Down to −50 °C: proving the drone dock at Sheffield's LVV
Before trusting an autonomous drone dock to a remote cold site, we took it to the University of Sheffield’s environmental chamber and ran it down to −50 °C — mapping its heating power, recovery time, and the temperature envelope it can still launch in.
742 flights, one Icelandic field, no pilot on site
In an extended Iceland trial, a Menapia drone flew 742 automated profiles from a weatherproof dock — launching, profiling, and swapping its own battery with no pilot on site, more than half of the flights reaching above the boundary layer.