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ArduPilot/MissionPlanner
Ground Control Station Tier A gcs_ground_station GPL-3.0
Mission Planner is ArduPilot's Windows ground control station, used for firmware loading, mission planning, log analysis and live telemetry in ArduPilot workflows.
Engineering Snapshot
Use cases & tasks 7
- Best suited for
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- ArduPilot ecosystem operators
- Windows-based GCS users
- UAV teams needing mission planning
- Primary tasks
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- Firmware loading for ArduPilot
- Mission planning
- Log analysis
- Live telemetry monitoring
Stack & ecosystem
- Resource type
- Ground Control Station
- Ecosystem
- ardupilot · autonomous · autopilot · c-sharp · control · cube
License & compliance
- License
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GPL-3.0(Inferred)
Lifecycle & freshness Show
- Maintenance
- Active
- Latest version
- Not recorded
- Last activity
- 2026-08-10
- Last checked
- 2026-08-13
- Verification
- Official confirmed
What It Solves
Provide a Windows ground control station for ArduPilot-based UAVs to handle firmware loading, mission planning, live telemetry, and log analysis.
Primary use cases
- Firmware loading for ArduPilot
- Mission planning
- Log analysis
- Live telemetry monitoring
When to Use
Consider when
- Target OS is Windows (per summary)
- Working within ArduPilot workflows
Verify before adopting
- License is inferred GPL-3.0, confirm official license
- Confirm Windows-only constraint for your environment
- Check latest release status (latest_version null)
Start Here
Adoption Checklist
- Needs verification License is inferred GPL-3.0, confirm official license
- Needs verification Confirm Windows-only constraint for your environment
- Needs verification Check latest release status (latest_version null)
Each check stays "needs verification" until an official source confirms it; unconfirmed items are never marked verified.
Known Limitations & Unknowns
Known limitations
- Windows-only indicated by summary (not verified for cross-platform)
- License status inferred not confirmed
Not publicly verified
- Exact supported ArduPilot firmware versions
- Latest version/release date not provided
Alternatives & Related Tools
Related tools
How is it used?
Start from the recorded entry points below, then validate against the technical checklist.
- Official site http://ardupilot.org/planner/
- Repository https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner
- Documentation http://ardupilot.org/planner/
Technical checklist
- OK License identified Recorded: GPL-3.0
- OK Maintenance signal Active
- OK Verification status Official confirmed
- OK Source evidence attached 1 source record(s)
- NEEDS REVIEW Latest version recorded Not recorded
Official Links
Metadata & Governance
| License | GPL-3.0 — Inferred |
|---|---|
| Commercial model | Unknown |
| Maintenance status | Active |
| Verification status | Official confirmed — Confirmed via the official repository API responses in SourceRefs below. |
| Latest version | Not recorded |
| Latest release | Not recorded |
| Last activity | 2026-08-10 |
| Last checked | 2026-08-13 |
| First seen | Not recorded |
Related Resources & Dependencies
Recent Activity
New resource: mission-planner
New repository resource added by the sprint promote pipeline.
Related Knowledge
Collections
- GCS and Telemetry Protocols — Ground control software and telemetry protocol repositories for command, monitoring and integration work.
- Ground Control and Mission Planning — Open components for mission planning, telemetry and ground control around MAVLink-based vehicles.
- MAVLink Ecosystem — The protocol and its reference consumers for building or evaluating MAVLink-based UAV integrations.
- PX4 Development and Simulation Toolkit — The components needed to build a local PX4 development and software-in-the-loop verification loop.
Comparisons
- QGroundControl vs Mission Planner GCS — Metadata and repository facts recorded from the official GitHub API on 2026-08-13. Flight-testing behavior, UX preference and hardware certification are deliberately not compared because the indexed sources do not provide field-level evidence.