vision
Delivering isolated Pacific areas by heavy drone: a hardware bet co-founded in Nouméa, at a time when 'logistics drone' still drew a smile.
Isolated Pacific areas pay a premium for logistics; the heavy drone bypasses it.
at a glance
2014-2016
prototype field-tested
IRD
R&D partnership
maturity · stopped, 2016
TRL 7prototype demonstrated in operational conditions
BRL 3stopped for lack of funding
targets
Isolated Pacific island areas
Slow, expensive logistics, no alternative.
Public & research actors
Reaching sites with no road or port.
technologies
Heavy drone prototypeCustom propulsionCommand & controlReal-condition trials
shutdown
A heavy aerospace R&D project, self-funded. With no financing relay to absorb propulsion's long, capital-intensive cycles, personal R&D hit its limit: paused, for lack of resources matching the technical ambition.
legacy
An immersion into propulsion's technical locks and deeptech-space economics — and the lesson that breakthrough hardware R&D doesn't run on personal funds alone.
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