Whitepaper

A decentralized mesh for the skies.

The MeshSky whitepaper presents the vision, the protocol design, and the operating economics of a planet-scale, open mesh for aviation telemetry.

What's inside

  • The case for an open mesh: why aviation telemetry has been quietly proprietary.
  • Architecture: feeders, AirBridge gossip, ControlTower fusion, and MLAT.
  • The wire protocol: framing, signing, version negotiation.
  • Sybil resistance and the reputation model.
  • Operating economics: bandwidth budgets, the Foundation, and the path to incentives.
  • Open questions and a proposed roadmap.

Released under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: MeshSky Foundation, "MeshSky: An Open Decentralized Mesh for Aviation Telemetry," v1.0, 2025.