A live Digital Twin of Earth's orbital environment — powered by Event-Driven Architecture and Solace.
Orbital Mesh is an interactive demo that visualizes satellites orbiting Earth in real time — as a living, breathing 3D globe in your browser.
Every satellite you see moving on screen is driven by a live event stream. There is no polling, no page refresh, no manual data loading. Position updates flow continuously from a backend emitter through a Solace event mesh directly into the frontend, where they instantly appear as smooth orbital motion.
It's a digital twin: a virtual mirror of a real-world system, kept in sync through events.
Most people understand that data moves through systems. Fewer people feel what it means for data to move in real time, at scale, through an event-driven architecture.
Orbital Mesh makes it accessible.
Watch a satellite arc across the globe. That movement you see? It didn't happen because the browser asked for it. It happened because an event was published the moment the position changed — and every connected subscriber received it instantly, automatically, without anyone asking.
That is EDA. And once you see it working at orbital scale, it's hard to unsee it everywhere else.
The architecture is intentionally simple to illustrate a powerful idea:
Three moving parts. One flow.
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The Emitter continuously calculates orbital positions and publishes each update as an event — fire-and-forget, no knowledge of who's listening.
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The Solace Broker receives those events and instantly routes them to any and all subscribers. It acts as the intelligent nervous system connecting producers and consumers, decoupled from one another.
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The Web Frontend subscribes to the event stream and renders each position update as it arrives — no requests, no waiting, just continuous real-time motion.
The emitter has no idea a browser exists. The browser has no idea what language the emitter is written in. They share nothing except a topic and a message format. This means any component can be replaced, scaled, or swapped without touching the others.
Events are pushed the moment they happen. There's no scheduled job, no polling interval, no cache to expire. The state you see is the state that is.
Want to add a second visualization — a 2D map, a data dashboard, a mission control panel? Just subscribe. The emitter keeps doing exactly what it's doing. You don't change anything upstream.
One event, published once, can be consumed by dozens of different subscribers simultaneously. In traditional architectures, this requires custom integrations for each new consumer. In EDA, it's the default behavior.
Orbital Mesh is a conversation starter, not a production system. It's designed to resonate with anyone who has ever wondered:
- "How do you build a system that reacts the moment something changes?"
- "What does real-time actually mean in practice?"
- "How do you connect systems that shouldn't know about each other?"
Whether you're evaluating event-driven platforms, exploring IoT architectures, designing enterprise integrations, or just curious what a modern event mesh looks like in action — this demo is for you.
No setup required. Open the demo in your browser and watch the orbital positions update in real time:
👉 london.solace.rocks/orbital-mesh
Satellites are just one domain. The same architecture powers:
- IoT & Industrial — thousands of sensors streaming telemetry from machines, vehicles, or infrastructure
- Financial Services — trade events, fraud signals, and market data flowing in milliseconds
- Retail & Logistics — inventory changes, shipment tracking, and demand signals propagating in real time
- Healthcare — patient monitoring, device data, and alert routing without delay
Wherever things happen in the real world and systems need to react — that's where EDA, and Solace, lives.
- 🌐 Solace.com — Event-driven architecture platform
- 📖 Solace Documentation — Dive deeper into the technology
- 🧭 Solace Demos — Explore other EDA demos
- 💬 Solace Community — Talk to developers building with Solace
Built with 💚 by Pascal Reitermann as a Solace demo.