Send location updates of the ISS to a topic in MQTT

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Built by Harshil Agrawal Harshil Agrawal
Created on June 05, 2026

Description

This workflow allows you to send position updates of the ISS every minute to a topic in MQTT using the MQTT node.



Cron node: The Cron node will trigger the workflow every minute.

HTTP Request node: This node will make a GET request to the API https://api.wheretheiss.at/v1/satellites/25544/positions to fetch the position of the ISS. This information gets passed on to the next node in the workflow.

Set node: We will use the Set node to ensure that only the data that we set in this node gets passed on to the next nodes in the workflow.

AWS SQS: This node will send the data from the previous node to the iss-position topic. If you have created a topic with a different one, you can use that topic instead.

Nodes Used (2)

HTTP Request
n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest
MQTT
n8n-nodes-base.mqtt