Field notes

Field notes.

Notes from the team building persistent aerial systems — engineering, deployment, and the road ahead.

Apus 100 holding station over an electrical substation at golden hour

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Why persistence beats sorties

Hours on station versus twenty-minute battery runs — and why it changes the picture entirely.

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Apus 100 from below, tether dropping from the damper beneath the camera gimbal

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Inside the tether

Power and secure data on one armored line — and what that buys you that wireless can't.

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Apus 100 rising on its tether from the open drone-in-a-box ground station

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Designing the ground station

The automated drone-in-a-box: reeling, docking, weather — and why the case is the product.

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Up next

Mission packs, explained

Software-defined missions on one airframe — switch the software, not the hardware.

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What ±1 m station-keeping takes

Holding a vantage point in real wind, continuously.

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From brief to deployment

How a site goes from first call to eyes overhead.

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