Starbase

About This Project

Starbase is a live dashboard for upcoming rocket launches. It shows a countdown to the next launch, tells you when a launch is on hold and why, and links to the live video when one exists. A small JSON API serves the same data for anyone who wants to build on it.

Behind the page, a serverless pipeline on AWS keeps the data fresh. Every ten minutes, a scheduled Lambda function asks Launch Library 2 for the next 20 launches and saves them to DynamoDB. CloudFront serves the dashboard and caches API reads for 30 seconds at the edge. A counter in DynamoDB caps upstream requests at 12 per hour, under the data source’s free limit of 15. The whole system lives in one Terraform stack and deploys through GitHub Actions with no stored cloud credentials.

Source: github.com/zevlo/starbase Dashboard: starbase.zevlo.net

Technologies Used

• Python (Lambda)
• Terraform
• DynamoDB
• EventBridge, API Gateway, CloudFront, S3
• GitHub Actions (OIDC)
• pytest with moto, ruff