Science

live Science

ISS tracking, earthquakes, air quality, and NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day

4 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

get_iss_location

Get the current location of the International Space Station

No parameters required.

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get_earthquakes

Get recent earthquakes from USGS

Parameters
Name Type Description
days opt number Look back N days (1-30, default 1)
min_magnitude opt number Minimum magnitude (default 4.0)
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get_air_quality required: latitude, longitude

Get air quality measurements near a location from OpenAQ

Parameters
Name Type Description
latitude req number Latitude
longitude req number Longitude
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get_apod

Get NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

Parameters
Name Type Description
date opt string Date in YYYY-MM-DD format (default: today)
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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/science/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/science/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_iss_location","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("get_iss_location", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("iss tracking, earthquakes, air quality, and nasa's astronomy picture of the day");