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About Saildrone

Saildrone, Inc. is an Alameda, California company that designs, builds and operates a fleet of uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) for maritime defence, ocean science and commercial customers. Founded in 2012 around a patented rigid wing-sail technology, its vehicles combine wind propulsion with solar power to stay at sea for months at a time collecting data and carrying mission payloads. The fleet has three classes: the 7-metre Explorer for long-duration environmental and scientific sensing; the 10-metre Voyager, a multi-mission workhorse for maritime domain awareness, coastal mapping and surveillance; and the 20-metre Surveyor for deep-ocean mapping and persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.

The company operates the fleet as a service — customers buy persistent sensing, secure data and modular payload capacity rather than the vehicles — and its homepage reports more than 3 million nautical miles sailed and over 70,000 days at sea across 12-plus years of operations (company-stated). Saildrone USVs work for navies and coast guards on anti-submarine warfare and ISR missions, for agencies such as NOAA on weather and ocean research, and for commercial survey customers mapping the seabed.

Products & services

• Explorer 7 m USV for long-duration meteorological and oceanographic sensing
• Voyager 10 m USV for maritime domain awareness, coastal mapping and surveillance
• Surveyor 20 m USV for deep-ocean mapping and persistent ISR
• Modular payload integration (sonar, towed arrays, ISR sensors) and mission operations
• Ocean data and maritime intelligence delivered as an operated service

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• Company website — saildrone.com (official site: profile facts, headquarters, markets and product range). Checked 6 November 2026.
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