Shreepoorna S Rao
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founder @arctusaerospace, bangalore, @iitmadras 2024, building in aerospace
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On 10th April, we inaugurated the Arctus HQ in Bengaluru and unveiled the AX1 - our first tech demonstrator unmanned aircraft - in the presence of Tejasvi Surya. The specs of AX1 are as follows - 20,000 feet cruising altitude, 50 KGs of payload and endurance of 10 hours! What stands out is how much of this was enabled by Bangalore. The ecosystem here allows you to go from concept to hardware at an aggressive pace - access to high-quality engineers, suppliers, early customers, and capital all within a tight loop. For a team building complex aerospace systems, that density compounds fast. Over the last few months, we’ve been heads down - designing, building, and testing - operating like an F1 team with rapid iteration cycles across structures, avionics, and flight systems. The AX1 is a direct output of that process. This facility is not just an office - it’s where we intend to push the limits of high-altitude UAVs, continuously iterating toward larger platforms and longer endurance. This is day zero for us, and there’s a lot more to build. Arctus Aerospace South Park Commons South Park Commons India Version One Ventures gradCapital Aditya Agarwal Prateek Mehta Ankit Chowdhary Prateek Behera Boris Wertz Abhishek Sethi Angela Tran
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