Weather radar, in the app. Delivered over satellite.

No other relay does this. Open the BlipSat app, pick your airport or area, and a precipitation map comes back over your ZOLEO or Garmin inReach's satellite link — you decide how much detail it's worth.

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You choose the detail

Radar detail scales with the number of satellite messages you spend. Ask for a quick overview or a fine-grained picture — your call, right in the app.

Coarse radar map delivered in a single satellite message — **1 message** — a fast, chunky overview. Enough to see the cell and where it's building.

Fine-grained radar map delivered in nine satellite messages — **9 messages** — fine-grained cells, the detail of an in-cockpit display, from orbit.

Watch the detail climb

More messages, more resolution — the same storm, from a one-message glance to a nine-message picture.

Radar detail increasing from one to nine satellite messages

How it works

Open Radar in the app

In the BlipSat app, choose an airport to center on — or center on your current GPS position.

Pick the detail

Choose how many messages of resolution you want. One buys a coarse overview; up to nine buys fine detail.

Sent over satellite

The app relays your request through your paired ZOLEO or Garmin inReach and renders the map on your phone — no cell signal required.

Nobody else puts radar on a satellite communicator

Weather relays over satellite text usually stop at a METAR. BlipSat pairs the app on your phone with your ZOLEO or Garmin inReach to turn it into a radar display — coverage across the continental US precipitation network — so you can see the storm, not just read about it. And because you set the detail, you never spend a message on resolution you don't need.

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