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The mesh, the docs, the protocol. For everyone.
- Run unlimited feeders
- Public API access
- Community support
- Open-source dashboards
Open · Decentralized · Real-time
A mesh network for the skies.
MeshSky is an open protocol that links community feeders, AirBridge relays, and ControlTower nodes into a planetary mesh — democratizing aviation telemetry and MLAT for everyone.
- 10k+ Feeders worldwide
- <200ms Mesh propagation
- 100% Open protocol
What MeshSky Is
A planetary mesh for aviation telemetry.
MeshSky stitches together independently-operated radio receivers — feeders — into a single, low-latency network. Aircraft signals captured anywhere on Earth become instantly available everywhere, without a central gatekeeper.
Open by default
An open protocol, open data, and open governance. Anyone can run a node, contribute, fork, or extend the spec.
Owned by operators
No single company owns the mesh. Feeders earn reputation; the network self-organizes through cryptographic peering.
Built for the edge
Runs on a Raspberry Pi, a router, or a hyperscale gateway. The protocol is bandwidth-aware and gracefully degrades.
Architecture
Three layers. One mesh.
MeshSky is composed of three cooperating tiers — feeders at the edge, AirBridge in the middle, and ControlTower at the apex — bound together by a gossip protocol with cryptographic provenance.
Designed to be unstoppable.
The mesh has no single point of failure. Feeders peer with multiple AirBridge relays; AirBridges gossip with each other; ControlTower nodes reach consensus on positions, identity, and reputation.
- Cryptographic provenance — every observation is signed.
- Reputation scoring — sybil-resistant by design.
- Pluggable transports — TCP, QUIC, LoRa, mesh-radio.
- Geographic sharding — bandwidth scales linearly with the network.
Feeders
A receiver near you, by you.
A feeder is anything that listens to the sky and signs what it hears. Run one on a $35 SDR and a Raspberry Pi, or scale to a roof-top antenna farm.
Run on anything
Official images for Raspberry Pi, x86 Linux, OpenWrt, and Docker. One-line install, automatic updates, signed releases.
Feeder docsEarn reputation
Every signed observation increases your feeder’s standing. High-reputation feeders gain priority routing and (in time) protocol-level rewards.
How rewards workBandwidth-aware
Feeders negotiate compression and sample rates with their AirBridge peers. Run on satellite, LTE, or fiber — the mesh adapts.
Privacy-respecting
Operators choose what to share. Geo-fuzzing, opt-in identity, and signed audit trails are first-class protocol concerns.
AirBridge
The gossip layer of the sky.
AirBridge nodes form a gossiping mid-tier that fans out signed feeder observations across regions in under 200 milliseconds.
Sub-200ms fan-out
A QUIC-based gossip protocol propagates aircraft positions across continents faster than they can move.
Geographic sharding
Relays organize themselves into a Voronoi tessellation of the planet, so traffic stays local and latency stays low.
Self-healing
Lose a relay and the mesh re-routes in seconds. Lose a region and neighboring shards take over until you’re back.
ControlTower
The brain at the apex.
ControlTower nodes ingest the signed observation stream and produce the network’s authoritative outputs: deduplicated tracks, MLAT solutions, reputation scores, and a public API.
An indexer, a solver, a notary.
Anyone can run a ControlTower. They’re fully verifiable: every output is reproducible from the signed observation log. Multiple ControlTowers reach consensus through the same gossip layer, so the network stays trust-minimized even at the apex.
- Track fusion — combine ADS-B, Mode-S, and MLAT into a single stream.
- Reputation rollups — sybil-resistant scoring of feeders.
- Public API — REST + streaming for downstream apps.
- Verifiability — every result is a function of signed inputs.
{
"icao": "A12B34",
"callsign": "MSKY101",
"position": {
"lat": 47.6204,
"lon": -122.3491,
"alt_ft": 34000
},
"track": 285,
"speed_kt": 462,
"source": "mlat+adsb",
"feeders": 14,
"confidence": 0.992,
"signed_by": ["airbridge-pnw-3", "ct-eu-1"]
}MLAT
Multilateration, demonopolized.
MeshSky brings open MLAT to anyone — locating non-ADS-B aircraft using time-of-arrival differences across cooperating feeders, with zero proprietary servers.
Distributed solver
Solutions are computed in any ControlTower, verified independently, and re-broadcast through the mesh.
Sub-microsecond timing
GPS-disciplined feeders share precision time references. The protocol negotiates timing budgets per shard.
Coverage that compounds
Every new feeder strengthens MLAT for everyone in range — open data with positive externalities.
Decentralization
No kings. No gatekeepers.
MeshSky is a protocol, not a product. The reference implementations are MIT-licensed; the spec is governed in the open; the network has no admin button.
Open protocol
Versioned, semantically-stable, and forever public. Implement it in any language, on any platform.
Open governance
A foundation stewards the spec. RFCs are public. Anyone can propose changes; rough consensus and running code decide.
Open data
Network output is freely usable, with attribution. Operators can layer commercial services on top — the mesh stays free.
Pricing
The mesh is free. Pick a tier for tooling.
MeshSky the protocol is free, forever. The MeshSky Foundation offers paid tooling for operators who want managed dashboards, premium APIs, or enterprise SLAs.
Operator
$29/mo
For active feeder operators who want managed tooling.
- Hosted feeder dashboards
- Higher API rate limits
- Reputation analytics
- Priority community support
Enterprise
Custom
For airlines, ANSPs, and integrators with SLA needs.
- Private ControlTower deployment
- Streaming firehose access
- Dedicated AirBridge capacity
- 24/7 SLA & onboarding
Ready to put a feeder on the roof?
It takes 15 minutes, a Raspberry Pi, and an SDR. The mesh is waiting.