The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Asteria Aerospace: 1 model, 1 deployment across 1 region. 1 source back the record.
CategoryDrones
Overview
Indian drone company developing enterprise and defense UAVs. Founded by Neel Mehta and Nihar Vartak (Purdue university alumni). Full-stack drone manufacturer with AT15 and other platforms for surveillance and industrial applications.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Co-founders
HQ
Founded
Products
Full-stack
FICCI role
Incidents
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Asteria Aerospace has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
Most recent
- with Reliance Industriesoperating
Asteria Aerospace on the deployment map
View the global map1 verified deployment across 1 region, newest verified Jan 2020. Explore where Asteria Aerospace's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Asteria Aerospace deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Neel Mehta Co-founder & Directorreported, not verified
Founders (1)
- Neel Mehtacofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Asteria Aerospace.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Asteria Aerospace1 deployment
Recent coverage
Asteria Aerospace in third-party press
Karnataka fast-tracks drone testing facility near Bengaluru, eyes leadership in India's drone economy - YourStory.com
Top Defense Robotics Companies in India to Watch in 2026 - Analytics Insight
Top 30 Indian robotics companies: Competition, foreign and domestic - Robotics & Automation News
Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Anduril Industries7 models
- DJI7 models
- Skydio6 models
- SIYI Technology5 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- acquired
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
5 total · 3 operating · 2 just announced
Every company Asteria Aerospace has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with Reliance Industriesoperating
All 5 partnerships
open in the atlas →- asteria-aerospace x nvidiawithNVIDIA1112technology—operating
- asteria-aerospace x awswithAWS976technology—just announced
- asteria-aerospace x Reliance IndustrieswithReliance Industriesinvestment—operating
- Asteria Aerospace x Reliance Industries Drone ServiceswithReliance Industriesdeployment2019-12-13operating
- Asteria Aerospace x Drone Destination International UAVwithDrone Destinationdistribution—announcedjust announced
Timeline
Every recorded move in Asteria Aerospace’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipAsteria Aerospace x Reliance Industries Drone Services
2019-12-13Reliance Industries acquired Asteria Aerospace in December 2019 to accelerate drone adoption across industrial and enterprise applications. Asteria provides drone services to Reliance group companies including traffic analysis and site surveys.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 27, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2020
A200-XT at India
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Asteria Aerospace.Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Anduril Industries7 models
- DJI7 models
- Skydio6 models
- SIYI Technology5 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Asteria Aerospace from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Karnataka fast-tracks drone testing facility near Bengaluru, eyes leadership in India's drone economy - YourStory.com
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Top Defense Robotics Companies in India to Watch in 2026 - Analytics Insight
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Top 30 Indian robotics companies: Competition, foreign and domestic - Robotics & Automation News
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How Operation Sindoor Showed the World India’s Drone Power - The CSR Journal
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India’s defence drone industry surges to forefront amid Operation Sindoor response - Moneycontrol.com
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Top Indian Robotics Companies in 2025 - Analytics Insight
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Asteria Aerospace and Beyond: Rajat Khare’s Contributions to India’s AI and Robotics Ecosystem - Vocal
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20 Top Drone Companies in India - Built In
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5 Companies pioneering India’s defence technology evolution - Manufacturing Today India
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RIL made $3 billion acquisitions in three years to boost offerings - livemint.com
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/asteria-aerospace.md
- RSS feed: /companies/asteria-aerospace/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/b5d1a90d-45ca-4c74-aa33-34e0034d70b7
- Revision history: /companies/asteria-aerospace/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Anduril Industries7 models
- DJI7 models
- Skydio6 models
- SIYI Technology5 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
Video
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Company Description- At Asteria Aerospace, one of the best aerospace companies in Bangalore, we develop high-quality UAV-based solutions and products to transla
The first Static Fire of Asteria Aerospace's APHAC Pod. This is a boilerplate model to be improved on in the future. Note that failure was expected to some exte
PM Narendra Modi flies Bengaluru-based drone startup, Asteria Aerospace Limited, surveillance drone during the Drone Mahotsav 2022 #CNBCTV18 #DFI2022 #PMModi
The A200-XT is a versatile drone with payloads that can be quickly swapped between a high-resolution high-zoom day camera, and a night-time thermal camera. With
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Heat Index
Serious60/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Asteria Aerospace draws attention at the 42nd percentile but verifies reality at the 9th percentile among aerial robots. Hype Gap +33.2, 26th widest among aerial robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 2, 2026