Turning Sky Labs
Temporal · Geospatial · Alive
Real-time and scrubbable computation across the sky, the surface, and the timeline. One engine. Many industries.
The core primitive is entity × position × time × observer.
Sky, Earth, and Time are three lenses on the same space.
The Sky
Orbital mechanics, pass prediction, conjunction windows, debris and constellation geometry. What is overhead, when, from where you stand.
The Earth
Fleets, vessels, routes, migration, logistics, navigation, and human-scale presence. What moves on the surface and how it connects.
Time
Scrub forward and backward through state. Stream positions at speed. Temporal placement is first-class—not a filter bolted onto a map.
Astronomy and calendar-style applications are one facet among many; the same machinery serves satellites, shipping, safety, and simulation.
Built for speed
Elixir and the BEAM VM. Millions of lightweight concurrent processes, sub-millisecond message passing, fault-tolerant by design. The same runtime that powers WhatsApp and Discord powers every Turning Sky service.
Machine-to-machine, browser, or server-sent events. Pick the protocol that fits your architecture.
Licensed deployment for sovereign environments. ITAR-compatible. No call-home, no telemetry, your iron.
Segmentable databases. Handshake data between cloud and edge with portable snapshots that travel on a thumb drive.
Where this applies
Privacy & sovereignty
Location is sensitive data. We design for least exposure: strong boundaries, data sovereignty, and air-gapped or on-prem deployment when your threat model requires it—so telemetry and identity stay yours.
Use cases
Seismic monitoring
Ingest USGS earthquake feeds in real time. Subscribe by magnitude, geo-radius, or custom region. Webhook dispatch within seconds of detection.
Satellite tracking
Visual pass predictions, constellation monitoring, and radio windows for 33,000+ cataloged objects. Notify when the ISS rises over your location.
Defense & maritime
Chokepoint monitoring, AIS vessel tracking, and air-gapped deployment for sovereign operations. Strait of Hormuz to the South China Sea.
District management
Custom geo-boundaries for retail, logistics, or field operations. Coverage routing, on-call matching, and PII-secure contact management across regions.
Astronomical computation
Precision ephemeris as a managed API. Transit activations, rise/set times, and natal chart streaming. JPL-native, not a Swiss Ephemeris wrapper.
Conflict & geopolitical intelligence
Armed conflict events, territorial changes, and crisis monitoring from ACLED and GDELT feeds. Push-delivered, geo-filtered, significance-scored.
Natural events
Wildfires, severe weather, volcanic eruptions, and icebergs tracked with time-stamped geometry as they move. NASA EONET and NWS feeds normalized to one schema.
Family & household
Consent-based location sharing and life event notifications. Know when someone lands, arrives home, or enters a region you care about. Private by design.
Subscribe to anything
À la carte event streams. One unified API for everything that moves on or above the earth.
Event domains
Webhook, SSE, WebSocket, or polling—subscriber picks the protocol
Custom geo-boundaries—not just countries and states, your own regions
Unified GeoJSON schema across every domain
Event composition—notify when A and B and C overlap
Progressive refinement—events update as more data arrives
On-prem SQLite snapshots for air-gapped and edge deployment
Why not stitch it yourself?
Central source of truth beats hand-rolling ephemeris, gluing five vendors, and shipping GIS UIs that look like 2005. Turning Sky Labs builds the computation layer, the interfaces, and the integrations—so your team focuses on the product.