Stream live ISS location data into your systems every minute

Fetches the International Space Station's current position every minute and pushes it into your data pipeline.

How the work actually flows

It repeats. Schedule triggers again.

Pattern: Structured Loop (21)

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Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Image & Media Processing
Connects
Kafka

The problem it solves

If you're testing a real-time data pipeline or building a live dashboard, you need a steady, predictable stream of data to work with, and setting one up from scratch takes time you'd rather spend on the actual build.

Who it fits

Developers or data teams who need a live, low-stakes data feed for testing pipelines or dashboards.

How it works

  1. Every minute, the system checks the current position of the International Space Station
  2. It fetches the latest latitude and longitude
  3. The location data is packaged into a message
  4. The message is published to a Kafka topic for downstream systems to consume
What you get

A live data feed for testing your pipeline

You get the International Space Station's live location streamed into your systems every minute for testing and experimentation.

What you get

A continuous stream of ISS location updates published to a Kafka topic.

What you need

A Kafka cluster or managed Kafka service.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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