🚀 SpaceDucks IV: Advancing Off-Grid Connectivity! In spring 2024, OWL Integrations teamed up with the ClusterDuck Protocol (CDP) community and the brilliant team at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo to pull off SpaceDucks IV — our fourth year pushing the limits of low-orbit LoRa radio communications using weather balloons. 🛰️🎈 OWL is on a mission to build a resilient future. This year, we took a few steps closer to orbital space networking. In six test launches over two days we: 1. Integrated software-defined radios (SDR) improving the flexibility of high altitude communications 2. Developed a plugin for the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) - AQUACK, as we like to call it 😎 - for real-time, off-grid communication 3. Collected 7,991 data packets (not that we were counting 😉) Check out the full SpaceDucks IV 2024 Report for all the data, experiments, and lessons learned along the way: https://lnkd.in/ejqWXnFh With every launch, OWL evolves its resilient networking technology, whether it's for disaster recovery, location tracking, environmental monitoring, or space connectivity. 🦆🌌 #lora #iot #sensors #spacecommunications #opensource #cdp #spaceduck #owl #clusterduckprotocol #wirelessnetworks #atak #connectivity
AQUACK - whoever came up with this name deserves an award!
Great job everyone, including successful design iterations and Space Flight Readiness environmental testing. Space Ducks IV demonstrated Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) connectivity through airborne nodes (drones balloons) in a local setting of >15 miles
Photo Credits to Timo Wielink!
TAK...this is the way
1wGreat work OWL Integrations!