en.Wedoany.com Reported - RocketDNA has announced that its autonomous drone project in partnership with the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) has become one of the largest of its kind in Australia. Since February 2026, RocketDNA has completed approximately 4,400 flight missions across BMA's Peak Downs, Goonyella, Saraji, and Caval Ridge metallurgical coal mines in Queensland's Bowen Basin, accumulating over 2,000 hours of autonomous flight time and averaging around 1,500 flights per month, enhancing both safety and productivity.

The operational model pursues seamless integration. BMA personnel select the mission type, site, and parameters through RocketDNA's Skylink platform, and processed aerial data is received within 15 minutes of task dispatch, with no drone operator required on site. Missions cover surveying, inspection, panoramic capture, and live video applications across the four operational sites. Field personnel who previously had to physically access hazardous areas for assessments can now request and obtain equivalent aerial intelligence from their desks, eliminating exposure risks.

RocketDNA Managing Director and CEO Christopher Clark stated that this deployment proves operations in high-risk, rapidly changing industries like mining can no longer afford the delay between ground conditions changing and decision-makers becoming aware. Autonomous aerial infrastructure bridges this gap at an unprecedented scale. This large-scale deployment was made possible by the wide-area Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) approval first granted to RocketDNA by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) in late 2025, enabling the company to deploy drones on demand across Australia without the previous requirement of applying for regulatory restrictions on a site-by-site basis.

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