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.
Flying off the back of a ship: STRINQS in the tropical Atlantic
Four Menapia quadcopters went to sea in 2024, flying simultaneous, coordinated atmospheric profiles from a research vessel in the mid-Atlantic for TU Delft’s STRINQS campaign — including the first three-drone coordinated hexagon we know of from a moving ship.