Autonomous Rocket Recovery Kit: GPS Tracking & Bearing Display with Arduino Nano + LoRa

Every part needed, pre-tested for compatibility, with an AI build companion trained on this exact project. Shipped from Bengaluru in 3-5 days.

Bring your model rocket safely back to you without scanning the horizon or losing hours searching a field. This dual‑Arduino system places a NEO‑6M GPS and RA‑02 LoRa transmitter on the rocket, while a matching hand‑held receiver unit shows exact bearing and distance to the landing spot on a crisp OLED display. The bearing arrow updates every second, so you walk straight to your payload – even if it drifted 2 km downrange.

What You'll Build

A fully autonomous recovery tracker: the rocket unit locks GPS satellites and immediately begins transmitting precise latitude and longitude over LoRa at 433 MHz. The ground unit listens, calculates the bearing and distance from your launch point using the haversine formula, and renders a real‑time direction arrow on its 0.96‑inch OLED. No phone, no internet, no manual triangulation – just switch on and follow the screen.

What You'll Learn

• Configuring LoRa modules for reliable point‑to‑point data links over 2‑3 km
• Parsing NMEA sentences from a GPS module to extract latitude, longitude, and satellite fix quality
• Implementing the haversine formula on Arduino to compute bearing and distance on the fly
• Designing a portable power architecture with LiPo cells, TP4056 charging, and noise‑filtering capacitors

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