NASA Space Weather & DSN Anomaly Alerts (n8n + Telegram)

Get automated NASA space-weather and DSN anomaly monitoring—every 5 minutes

This n8n workflow fetches NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) status, NASA DONKI CME activity, NOAA GOES X-ray flux, and NASA NeoWs near-Earth object data—then uses an OpenRouter-hosted LLM to generate a short monitoring brief and sends it to Telegram. Every run is also logged to PostgreSQL for traceability.

What this workflow does

• Runs on a 5-minute schedule to keep your monitoring current.
• Pulls DSN antenna status from NASA’s DSN XML feed and summarizes tracking/maintenance counts and any potential downlink anomalies.
• Fetches space-weather events from NASA DONKI (CME events) using your NASA API key.
• Collects radiation context by retrieving the last 6 hours of NOAA GOES X-ray flux.
• Checks hazardous NEOs using NASA NeoWs for today/tomorrow and surfaces hazardous asteroid names.
• Generates a structured brief via an OpenRouter chat model, including status, actions, and a verdict.
• Sends the summary to Telegram and stores alert text + raw context in PostgreSQL (table: aegis_alerts).

Use cases

• Space ops and automation engineers who need DSN anomaly alerts and quick situational awareness.
• SaaS operators building space-weather monitoring dashboards with historical records in PostgreSQL.
• Teams that want an LLM-generated short monitoring brief pushed to a Telegram channel—no manual checking.

Technical details

• Scheduling: runs every 5 minutes.
• NASA integrations: DSN XML feed, NASA DONKI CME events, NOAA GOES X-ray flux, and NASA NeoWs (requires api.nasa.gov key).
• LLM generation: OpenRouter-hosted chat model.
• Messaging: Telegram bot (chat ID + bot token).
• Data storage: PostgreSQL insert into aegis_alerts with alert text and raw context data.
• n8n nodes used: set, code, merge, postgres, telegram, sticky note.