OrbiMote: open-sourced LoRaWAN high-altitude balloon (HAB) tracker

"urbi et orbi" : to the city and the world

The Orbimote is a LoRa/LoRaWAN endpoint

• for tracking sounding balloons
• and for implementing flying repeaters and flying field testers.

HW & FW

• Hardware
• Firmware

GNSS additional modules for near-space applications

According CoCom regulations, most of commercial GPS modules stop at altitudes higher than 18000 meters and for speeds higher than 1000 knots (1852 km/h).

Here is a list of GPS modules : gnss_modules.md

Barometers for near-space applications

Here is a list of barometer components and modules : barometers.md

Flights

High-altitude flights

2019

Valence, May 2019. more Legend: The balloon track (in red), Orange Liveobject stations (in orange), TTN stations (in grey)

2020

Aire-sur-l'Adour, September 2020. more Legend: The balloon track (in green for departure, blue line and red for arrival), Orange Liveobject stations (in blue)

2021

Aire-sur-l'Adour, April 2021. more Legend: The 3 balloons tracks (in green for departure, red for arrival), Orange Liveobject stations in orange, Requea stations in blue, Swisscom (thru Actility) in red.

Altenatives

• HAB2 High Altitude Balloon Tracker RFM9x

Other usages

• Runners trackers
• Meshed-network of trail runners/trekers

License

TBD

Authors

• Didier DONSEZ
• Vivien QUEMA
• Gregory NOCERA