Open sky, open source, today.
THE REPOSITORIES
Three repos, one platform
The ground station, the agent, and the extensions are each their own public repository. Star the ones you use and follow development in the open.
Ground Control Station
ADOSMissionControl
The browser ground station: fleet telemetry, mission planning, 3D simulation, the parameter editor, and the Cockpit.
Open on GitHub →Onboard, Ground & Workstation Agent
ADOSDroneAgent
One codebase, four profiles. MAVLink proxy, video pipeline, cloud relay, plugin host, and the ground-station radio stack.
Open on GitHub →First-Party Extensions
ADOSExtensions
The open extension registry: battery health, thermal camera, gimbal control, vision navigation, and the extension SDK.
Open on GitHub →WHY OPEN
A shared compute layer beats a hundred private ones
The smart-drone compute layer has stayed first-party at every major manufacturer. Each one runs its own silicon, firmware, and SDK. That works for a single vertically integrated company, and it leaves every other drone builder starting from zero.
We publish the alternative. One open stack the whole industry can build on together, instead of each company rebuilding the same ground station, the same agent, and the same video link.
The best platforms are not the ones that win alone. They are the ones everyone else gets to build on.
LICENSING
Two licenses, no fine print
Software is copyleft so improvements stay open. Hardware is public domain so anyone can fabricate it.
- Mission Control (GCS)
- GPLv3
- Drone / Ground / Workstation Agent
- GPLv3
- Extensions and SDK
- GPLv3
- Flight computer schematics and PCB
- CC0 1.0
- Hardware documentation
- CC0 1.0
- 3D-printable parts
- CC0 1.0
CONTRIBUTE
Fork it, run it, send it back
Everything you need to build is in the open. Clone a repo, make it yours, and open a pull request when you have something to share.
Fork and build
Clone the repo, adapt it for your airframe or payload, and keep your changes in the open under GPLv3.
File issues
Report bugs and request features on the public issue trackers. Shared bugs get shared fixes.
Talk to the team
Join the Discord to ask questions, share builds, and shape what ships next.
Track every release
The changelog syncs straight from GitHub, so you always see what shipped and when.
$git clone https://github.com/altnautica/ADOSMissionControl.gitSo how does an open company make money?
The software stays free. Revenue comes from hosted cloud, hardware, and OEM support. Here is exactly how that works.