Stay deployed longer
In-field replenishment can move recovery away from every energy cycle, reducing expensive interruptions where the mission and service interval allow it.
For investors
Endurance is valuable when it lowers the cost of staying on task.
Andrasta designs the vehicle and its field-support system together to reduce vessel days, recovery cycles and lost mission time. The value can be tested through a simple operating model.
Change the assumptions
What repeated recovery can cost
Annual recovery events
24
Support-vessel days
36.0
Potentially avoidable annual support cost
£450,000
18.0 vessel days · £112,500 per vehicle-year
This model shows the support cost affected by in-field replenishment. A programme comparison must also include support nodes, remaining intervention, vehicle cost, energy, maintenance, utilisation and mission assurance.
The full comparison: vehicle and support equipment + mobilisation + vessel and crew + energy + maintenance + expected loss, divided by the days delivering the required data.
Reuse one architecture
Common energy, power, payload, autonomy and service interfaces carry learning and validated modules into larger systems.
Scale when demand is real
Andrasta remains lean through development and adds dedicated production capacity when committed fleet demand justifies it.
Cold-water opportunity
More Arctic activity increases the need for systems that can work efficiently in cold water.
Polar operations remain difficult, infrastructure-constrained and expensive to support. Those conditions make energy efficiency, low intervention and useful endurance commercially important.
2013–2023
+37%
Unique ships in the Arctic Polar Code area
Approximately 500 additional unique vessels entered the area over the ten-year period reported by PAME.
2013–2023
+111%
Aggregate distance sailed
Distance sailed increased from 6.1 million to 12.9 million nautical miles across the same reporting area.
System implication
Cold water changes the economics
Available energy, heat management, reliability, intervention cost and infrastructure access must be designed together.
Mission 2028 · High Arctic proof point
A planned Arctic under-ice transit before 2029.
Mission 2028 turns the cold-water design thesis into a public objective that customers, partners and investors can understand.
Explore Mission 2028
Market context: PAME Arctic Shipping Status Report update. Polar operating context: IMO Polar Code.
Current position
What is built now, and how the company scales.
Manta closes physical risk quickly. Validated interfaces and evidence then carry into the mission-scale platform family, with production capacity added against committed demand.
Physical development
Manta
First prototype completed in Q2 2026, with first water trials planned for Q4 2026.
Pre-integration design
AndraSound
The lead persistent mission architecture is defined, with research, design and development continuing.
Scale-up model
Fleet demand triggers capacity
Dedicated production follows committed demand, qualified suppliers and a configuration stable enough to justify repeat tooling.