[2] In June 2011, Neel Mehta and Nihar Vartak founded Asteria Aerospace with the idea of developing drones for defence applications.
[3] Later, Reliance Industries’ arm Jio Platforms acquired a majority stake of the company in December 2019.
[7] In March 2022, Asteria launched SkyDeck, a cloud-based drone operations platform that has a unified dashboard and offers services for drone fleet management which include flight planning and execution, data processing, visualization, and AI-based analysis of aerial data collected using drones.
It provides services to multiple industries such as GIS, construction, oil & gas, and agriculture.
[11][12][13] Asteria designs and manufactures multiple drone platforms ranging from 2 to 25 kg by using its hardware, software, analytics, and drone operations to provide Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS) ministrations to various fields such as surveillance & security, land surveys, and inspection of assets like pipelines, powerlines, and telecom towers.