From TLEs to Real-Time Satellite Tracking: Building an Orbital Backend with Spring Boot and Orekit (opens in new tab)

I've worked on projects where getting the right data was the bottleneck. You can't build features without data, and sometimes the data just doesn't exist or is locked behind paid APIs. Satellite tracking is different — the orbital data is publicly available. That shouldn't be a story, but it is. Most developers never think about it because they assume someone else has already built the tracking layer. They call an external API and move on. I didn't want to move on. I wanted to understand: how...