Discovery Drive Campaign Launching Soon
Our Discovery Drive campaign will be launching soon, so make sure to sign up for updates on the pre-launch page!
Discovery Drive is an automatic antenna rotator that is designed to be used with our Discovery Dish product, as well as similarly sized antennas such as Wi-Fi grid and Yagi antennas.
A motorized rotator, such as Discovery Drive, enables precise tracking of fast-moving polar orbiting satellites using a satellite dish or directional antenna. Examples of polar orbiting weather satellites include METEOR-M2, METOP, and FENGYUN. Depending on your location, you may also have access to other interesting satellites that dump data over specific regions.
Apart from public weather data, operators and enthusiasts might be interested in using Discovery Drive to track CubeSats, and amateur radio operators may wish to track amateur radio satellites.
Amateur radio astronomy hobbyists can map the galaxy in the hydrogen line spectrum using Stellarium, or custom software to aim a Discovery Dish with H-Line feed, allowing you to scan multiple parts of the sky in one night.
Please check out our promo video below!
Using a Telescope Mount works fairly well in the meantime. Discovery Drive is like Fusion, always more than a year away.
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Development has taken longer than expected, and we decided to pause for a while and see how the tariff situation ended up when crazy values were being thrown around.
So it has no slip ring. does it have a cable de-tangle function?
We decided against a slip ring for long-term reliability. They wear out, and corrode, and can have issues when bumped around (e.g., on a mast in the wind). Also, very importantly, the brushes can cause a lot of EMI, which is not great when you’ve got sensitive radio equipment right next to it. Discovery Drive just restricts rotation to -360 to 360 degrees, unwinding when necessary
Ordering from USA no sense , will not buy until you sell it from EU !
Too expensive and sorry and if this is like Kraken with in last minute your changed software and deleted it :….. and of course no price ! final price + Shipping secure + 25% :..what a joke !
We’re working on a better EU solution for the future, but for now, for crowdfunding, we need to go through Crowdsupply/Mouser.
Unfortunatley the Kraken passive radar software had to be removed for ITAR legal reasons, not much we could do there. We did offer refunds if anyone purchased a Kraken specifically to use our passive radar software. The passive radar software was always very basic though, basically just a demo of what could be done. Third parties developers have filled in the gaps now.
I hate these tariffs that make everything expensive too, but it is what it is at the moment…
After 3x attemps to buy, I didn’t even received my feeder…..LOL
All returned because wrong label on package ;/
Sorry about that. These issues are related to Mouser. Maybe contact us at [email protected] so we can try and push them to fix whatever process they have that is going wrong with your shipping labels.