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Carrier HX8

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About Carrier HX8

Carrier HX8 is Harris Aerial’s foldable coaxial octocopter for industrial, scientific and federal payload missions. Eight motors arranged in four coaxial pairs provide propulsion redundancy, while the airframe folds to roughly 40 percent of its operating footprint with propellers attached. A 21-inch mounting bay carries up to eight kilograms.

The free-flight configuration uses smart 12S 16,000 mAh batteries and reaches 43.2 minutes with no payload. Dual RTK GNSS, triple-redundant inertial sensing and autonomous waypoint modes support precise operations, with a published ideal telemetry range of 20 kilometres. HX8 is the battery free-flight platform; the HX8 Tether adds shore power and fibre data as a separate system.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Operating environments: SurvTech customer aerial-survey projects
  • Control modes: Not Specified
  • Aerial LiDAR surveying

    Customer-site use - 2022-05-04 - Carry a RIEGL VUX-1 scanner for aerial survey work, including SurvTech’s Sarasota National Cemetery project. - environment: SurvTech customer aerial-survey projects

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Observed use

Exact-product configurations are shown without inferring supply, purchase, customer status, standard fit, deployment or partnership.

  • RIEGL VUX-1 LiDAR

    Operational - Mounted - Physical - SurvTech operated an electric Harris HX8 with a RIEGL VUX-1 LiDAR for aerial surveying, including Sarasota National Cemetery. Historical 2022 configuration.

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Resources

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Timeline

  • Harris Aerial HX8 enters SurvTech’s LiDAR survey fleet

    2022-05-04 - Deployment - The survey configuration carried SurvTech’s RIEGL VUX-1 LiDAR payload on the electric coaxial aircraft. Sarasota National Cemetery’s noise policy ruled out the team’s gas-hybrid H6, which made electric operation useful for that project. SurvTech compared the HX8 with its DJI Matrice 600 Pro and reported longer flight time with the same LiDAR payload.

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