Tracker and tracker with ground station enclosure

The most capable GPS tracker you can buy.

The Featherweight GPS Tracker is rocketry's longest-range tracking system, and the only system designed to work with iPhone (Android coming soon).  The basic feature set is available now, and additional advanced features are coming soon!

Introductory price:
$130 tracker. (Two required for complete system).  Includes antenna, on-board power switch, mounting hardware and terminal block to connect your own battery.
$40 optional ground station enclosure includes battery, battery charger and external power switch.  Comes assembled with one tracker when tracker and enclosure purchased together.

Availabiiity:  A small initial production run is hardware-complete, and we will enable orders once the software is ready to ship.  A larger production run is in progress.

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Features

Longest Radio Range 

• Yes, it really can track to space.
• No directional antenna needed
• Robust margin for rocket body attenuation etc.

Most Advanced GPS (u‑blox M8)

• Simultaneous reception of GPS and GLONASS constellations means your tracker can use twice as many satellites, giving you great reception wherever the antenna is pointed
• 10 GPS solutions per second
• Accurate 3D velocity
• Low  power consumption

iPhone Compatible

• iFIP iPhone app available now
• aFIP Android app coming soon

Free Over-the-Air Software Upgrades

• Buy in confidence now, knowing that additional features in the future are a button-click away
• Nothing to plug in and no websites to monitor, just turn on the tracker while in the phone app and it will let you know if updates are available.

Small Size and Long Battery Life

• 1.67" x 0.8" board size, not including antenna
• Tracker can run 5 hours on a small, 400 mAhr single LiPo cell.
• ​Ground station enclosure can stay up all weekend

Your Phone Points to Your Rocket

• App uses GPS location, compass and accelerometers to point to your rocket
  
• Real-time updates vertically and horizontally

Advanced Features Coming Soon

Spoken Telemetry

• You phone tells you the flight information so you can keep your eyes on the sky

Data Logging

• Records GPS 3D velocity, location and signal strength at 10 samples per second for detailed post-flight analysis
• Designed to meet the requirements for Tripoli record
• Save as .kml file and plot in Google Earth

Multi-Stage Flights

• Monitor two or more stages with one phone app
• Dedicated, high-reliability transmission link for each stage
  

Over-the-Horizon Relay

• Any Featherweight tracker with a line of sight will relay the location of a "lost "rocket

Public Telemetry

• Follow along with your friends' flight data with the press of a button
• LCO can monitor flight progress real-time

Estimated Landing Point

• Uses the GPS velocity from the last signal to estimate the last landing point
• Choose to track to the last data or the estimated landing