Australian Securities Exchange-listed RocketDNA says its new “mission platform” can make autonomous drone direction as “simple as requesting a ride share”.
The microcap company, generating circa-A$10 million-a-year of mainly mining-related drone surveying and monitoring revenues, says an unnamed “tier-one mining customer” is using its Skylink operating system, which allows enterprise customers to manage mission requests, assign priority levels and get real-time status updates “from anywhere”.
“Users can request drone missions on-demand or schedule in advance, triggering flights at repeated intervals for consistent and reliable data delivery,” RockDNA said.
The company’s CEO Christopher Clark said Skylink was a game-changer for miners, extending the foundational capabilities of autonomous drone applications.
“We’ve effectively built an operating system that unlocks the power of on-demand drone data, combined with operational transparency and centralised management, giving our customers the confidence to deploy our autonomous systems at scale,” he said.
“Many Tier‑1 miners and other large enterprises want the safety, productivity and cost benefits of autonomous drones, but hesitate to scale beyond a small number of units without clear fleet‑wide control, governance and visibility.
“Skylink addresses this by providing a single, on‑demand mission platform that operations, planning and management teams can all easily use.”
The platform extended RocketDNA’s autonomous docking and SiteTube capabilities into a “unified operating layer for on‑demand drone data”.
“It also creates a foundation for higher automation levels and future AI and geospatial applications built on reliable, repeatable data capture,” the company said.
RocketDNA’s share price is up about 20% this year at A2.4c, capitalising the company at $23.7 million.
