Windhover Labs, based in Houston, Texas, delivers autonomous UAV platforms for mission-critical operations powered by spaceflight-proven software and systems engineering
Operational Urgency
Operators need working systems, not extended integration projects.
Reliability must be built-in from the start without long certification cycles.
Supply chains need to be U.S. based.
Windhover Labs is building UAV platforms that are ready to deploy, built to scale in the US, and trusted to fly mission-critical operations.
UAV Platforms
Military and Commercial Use Cases
High reliability, fully integrated solutions for mission-critical users. Military applications: intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and loiter munition. Commercial applications: earth observation, communication relay, and infrastructure inspection.
Ravenity Avionics
Autonomy and AI
Robust computing platform that provides high-reliability, edge computing power, and and artificial intelligence onboard. Flight and ground software with spaceflight heritage, optimized to balance autonomy and operator interaction.
UAV Integrators
Customized Applications
Windhover platforms are modular, reliable, high-quality, and easily extensible. Airframe, flight computer, and software are all built in-house. Our team of systems engineers and integrators turn ideas into reality quickly and efficiently.
Windhover Labs Vision
Build deployable, U.S.-made UAV platforms, that accelerate effective decision making, and compete head-to-head with industry leaders.
Leverage decades of human-rated spacecraft design, implementation, and test experience to deliver unmatched autonomy and reliability.
Be Vertically Integrated — control the flight computer, software, and airframe — to eliminate integration delays and accelerate innovation.
Capture market share by moving faster, leveraging the reliability built into the initial design, and delivering ready-to-fly platforms.
Let us help you get there.
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Ravenity Avionics
Flight Computer and Software
Windhover Labs developed the Ravenity UAV flight system, a high performance and high reliability flight computer for the safe operation of autonomous UAVs. Ravenity builds on technology from the space and commercial aircraft industries for maximum reliability and a path to FAA certification.
Ravenity provides augmented flight modes and edge computing which simplifies flight and requires very little training.
Dragonfly-Blue
UAV
Dragonfly is family of long range, UAVs with modular payload, designed to make maximum use of the capabilities provided by the Ravenity avionics system.
Dragonfly-Blue can be equipped for military or commercial use. It launches vertically directly from the 1’x1’x5’ launch tube, making it easy to transport and possible to operate in austere conditions without a runway.
Dragonfly-Black
UAV
Dragonfly-Black is the lower cost version of Dragonfly-Blue. This variant is intended for use as a loiter munition. The design is identical but the deployment strategy has a battery of Dragonfly UAVs on a palette. The flight software makes use of Ravenity hardware accelerated AI to provide real time target identification, classification, and tracking.
Eterna
High Altitude Psuedo-Satellite
Eterna is a high altitude, long range UAV, covered in solar panels for indefinite flight. Eterna can be equipped for Earth observation, communication relay, surveillance, or a variety of other use cases. Data can be retrieved via Starlink, without the need to ever land. Ravenity avionics can be reconfigured and reloaded in-flight providing maximum flexibility.
Our Experienced Team
Windhover Labs is building UAV platforms that are ready to deploy, built to scale, and trusted to fly mission-critical operations
Solid Product: Flight-proven, integration ready platforms
Solid Plan: Phased, capital efficient go-to-market strategy
Solid Team: Decades of success in human-rated autonomy for flight systems
Join us as we bring spaceflight-proven autonomy to the skies
Mathew Benson
Founder - CEO
Chief Engineer
Scott Arndt
Chief Aerospace Engineer
Rebecca Benson
Business Manager
Casey Nalley
Software Engineer
Electrical Engineer
Nate Uitenbroek
Co-Founder
Business Development
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