Drone products
Connected drone systems, built to be trusted.
Ascendant is developing a focused product family across communications, operator control, aircraft, power, and fleet intelligence.
The system
How the five fit together
One link, one controller, one aircraft, one fleet layer, and the power underneath it. Each is a product in its own right, and each carries its own status.
- Connect
- Ascendant Drone Radio (DUO)The link that carries video, telemetry and control.
- In development
- Control
- Ascendant Drone Controller (RC7)What the operator holds.
- Pilot availability
- Fly
- 526 Modular FPV Drone KitThe aircraft the rest of it flies on.
- In development
- Operate
- MoonTower AnalyticsThe fleet, its data and its updates.
- Available now
- Power
- High-Amp Speed ControllersWhat turns the motors.
- In development
Availability
What each status means
The five statuses a product on this page can carry. Each card below carries exactly one of them.
- Available now
- In production and available to order today.
- Request a Quote
- Pilot availability
- Available to a limited number of programs as a pilot.
- Request Pilot Access
- Seeking design partners
- Being built with a small number of customers who need it and will help shape it.
- Become a Design Partner
- In development
- Under development. Not available to order.
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- Concept only
- A direction we are working toward, not a product yet.
- Tell us if you need this
In development
Ascendant Drone Radio (DUO)
Secure, low-latency air-to-ground video, telemetry, and command link.
- One integrated link for HD video, telemetry, and command/control
- Lower-cost tactical datalink than high-end MANET and prime-contractor radios
- Modular integration for FPV, ISR, and unmanned-system OEMs
Compliance evidence: none verified yet, and where each kind stands.
Pilot availability
Ascendant Drone Controller (RC7)
Rugged, encrypted, mission-software-enabled ground control.
- One controller for multiple drones, radios, and payload ecosystems
- Low-latency video, telemetry, and command in one station
- NDAA-traceable, secure, and offline-capable for government procurement
Compliance evidence: none verified yet, and where each kind stands.
In development
526 Modular FPV Drone Kit
Modular, self-configuring, field-serviceable tactical platform.
- One airframe family replaces multiple mission-specific drone builds
- Smart hardware that configures itself correctly
- Mistake-proof assembly in darkness and high-stress conditions
Compliance evidence: none verified yet, and where each kind stands.
Available now
MoonTower Analytics
Fleet intelligence, telemetry, OTA updates, and operational data.
- Real-time and historical telemetry across aircraft, robots, and IoT
- Watchdog anomaly detection, fault alerts, and remote diagnostics
- Secure OTA firmware, patches, and configuration updates
Compliance evidence: none verified yet, and where each kind stands.
In development
High-Amp Speed Controllers
High-current electronic speed controllers.
- High-current ESCs for demanding propulsion (details on request)
Compliance evidence: none verified yet, and where each kind stands.
Integration
Built to go into somebody else's aircraft.
The products are designed to be integrated, not only to be flown by us.
Integration
Fitting one of these into what you already fly
None of these has to be bought as a set. What the work covers, when a product goes into somebody else’s airframe.
- Mechanical and electrical integration into an existing airframe
- Communications architecture, so the link fits what the aircraft already carries
- Firmware and protocol integration
- Ground-control integration
- Flight testing, planned and supported with the programme
- Configuration and deployment
- Production implementation support, once the integration is settled
Compliance and evidence
What can be shown, and what cannot yet
The eight kinds of evidence a government buyer asks for, and where each one stands. Planned means designed for and not yet built. In design means the same, said of a feature rather than a record. Not filed, not started and none mean exactly that. Verified would mean a result exists that somebody outside this company can check, and nothing below is verified. None of it is a legal determination, a certification, or a statement that any of these products meets a requirement. Your own counsel and contracting authority decide that.
- BOM traceability
- Planned. The parts list and where each line comes from is the record a buyer asks for, and it is built during production readiness.
- Country of origin
- Planned. Tracked against the bill of materials rather than asserted, which is what the compliance note describes.
- Secure boot
- In design, on the radio. It is what the radio is designed for; the controller claims no secure boot, and nothing has been shown on either.
- Signed firmware
- In design, on the radio, and on MoonTower for over-the-air updates. The SBOM and firmware note describes what signing requires.
- Encryption
- In design. AES-256 on the radio and the controller; mutual authentication on the radio only. Neither has been shown.
- FCC status
- Not filed. A grant is issued by the FCC or a certification body on a laboratory's measurements, not by us, and the certification note describes what a plan covers.
- Environmental testing
- Not started. No environmental report exists for any of these products.
- Blue UAS status
- None. A Blue UAS listing is DIU's to grant, and no product here holds one.
After you have one
Support and lifecycle
A product is not a delivery. This is how the lifecycle is handled, through MoonTower, as each product reaches it.
- Documentation
- Specifications and integration notes, to the level published for the product you are working with, and fuller documentation on request.
- Integration support
- The integration work above, carried on once a product is in somebody else's airframe.
- Firmware updates
- Delivered over the air through MoonTower, with the version recorded per device.
- Repairs and replacement
- Arranged per programme rather than offered as a standing service, and agreed before a product ships.
- Training
- Arranged per programme, on the product and how it integrates, rather than a scheduled course.
- Fleet and configuration support
- Which units exist, what is on them, what state they are in, and settings held centrally so a change is one change.
- Product-change notifications
- When something in a product changes, the people building on it hear it.
Need a product, an integration partner, or a design partner?
Tell us what you are building and which of these you are looking at. If it is work we can take, the next step is a technical call.
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