Flight #18 - Ascent AeroSystems’s Spirit UAV and the Blue sUAS List

This week we talk about the unique looking Spirit drone by Ascent AeroSystems, which is hard to describe and define. To help us, we invited Bobby Sakaki from Ascent AeroSystems on the show to discuss the Spirit, which was added to the Blue UAS list in June . We cover the aircraft in detail, including why it was designed the way it was, who could use the Spirit to its maximum potential, alongside many tangents about the drone industry as a whole.

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This episode's cast includes:

Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS
Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS
Fraser Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS
Bobby Sakaki - Head of Product, Ascent AeroSystems

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Chapters

• 2:05 Ascent AeroSystems Spirit details
• 7:17 Introduction to Bobby Sakaki
• 12:28 Production and user experience of controllers
• 22:47 Tension between the U.S. and China affecting the drone industry
• 33:05 Benefits of the coaxial drone design
• 39:44 Seamless integration for core sensors in Ascent
• 44:10 Maximum level of customization on the Spirit
• 48:17 Roadmap for Ascent's modular drone