Product profile
Aurelia X8 Standard
Aurelia X8 Standard is a ready-to-fly octocopter for professional payload and inspection missions. The open-source aircraft carries up to 8 kg and offers 2...
Facts
- Company
- Aurelia Aerospace
- Product type
- heavy_lift_uav
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- Carry heavy payloads
- Website
- https://aurelia-aerospace.com/products/aurelia-x8-standard
About Aurelia X8 Standard
X8 Standard uses eight propulsion units and an open payload area for cameras, sensors and customer equipment. The Pixhawk-based platform runs ArduPilot as standard and supports configurable controllers, data links and mission-planning tools.
Aurelia lists an 8 kg payload capacity, 56 km/h maximum speed and flight time of up to 45 minutes with long-endurance batteries. The aircraft is sold as configurable ready-to-fly bundles.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Heavy-lift drone
Core: Octocopter airframe
Function: Carry heavy payloads
Audience: Drone operators
Specifications
- airframe
- Eight-rotor octocopter 8
- compliance
- NDAA Section 848 and TAA compliant configurations
- flight_controller_options
- Cube Orange+ or Cube Blue
- flight_software
- ArduPilot standard; PX4 on request
- max_flight_time_minutes
- Up to 45 minutes with long-endurance batteries min
- max_payload_kg
- 8 kg
- price
- $6,399.95 USD 6399.95
- support_model
- Lifetime product support
Operations
- Deployment environment
- outdoor airspace, industrial sites
- Primary user
- drone operators, systems integrators
- Workflow
- heavy payload flight
- Interaction model
- operator-supervised and programmed missions
- Mobility class
- foldable octocopter UAV
- Product detail
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