World Space Week — Global Events Platform, Rebuilt
World Space Week is the UN-declared annual celebration of space, held 4-10 October and the largest space event on Earth. Beyond Technologies rebuilt the platform behind it, replacing a legacy PHP site with Next.js, Python and PostgreSQL and putting AI on top, so it handles 50,000+ events in a single month and millions of data operations without strain.
World Space Week runs on a single, extreme peak: organisers in 102+ countries register their events in the weeks around 4-10 October, and the public browses them by country, year and type at the same moment. The old platform was a legacy PHP site that was hard to change and struggled under that seasonal surge, while the Association needed a modern site it could grow, with NASA among the contributors to its website and platform.
The solution.
- 01Replaced the legacy PHP site with a modern stack: a Next.js and React front end, Python services and a PostgreSQL data layer built for the October peak.
- 02Event submission for organisers worldwide, with accounts so each organiser manages their own events.
- 03A searchable global events timeline and interactive map: look up any event by ID, title, year or country.
- 04Media and news publishing, partner and sponsor pages, and donations, managed by the Association's own team.
- 05AI on top of the event data, so the team and the public can work with tens of thousands of events at once.
- 06Data pipelines that carry millions of data operations through the campaign month without slowing the public site.
Inside the build.
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