![]() This story was updated on May 8 to include details on the student participation in the HD Earth Viewing experiment.įollow Mike Wall on Twitter and Google+. UrtheCast also aims to sell its imagery to a variety of customers, including government agencies interested in tracking resource use and private companies that want to keep tabs on their operations (and perhaps the operations of their competitors). On-orbit construction of the station began in. UrtheCast released the first images from Theia last month and plans to begin streaming near-realtime views of Earth from orbit soon, bringing lots of viewers to their website. The International Space Station (ISS) is a research facility currently being assembled in Low Earth Orbit. Currently, live video of Earth is streaming from an external HD camera mounted on the ISS. These two cameras, which together cost $17 million, were installed by spacewalking cosmonauts in January. ISS High Definition Live Streaming Video of the Earth (HDEV) Formerly the site for the High Definition Earth-Viewing System (HDEV) : Operational: Ap End of Life: August 22, 2019. One of them, known as Theia, takes pictures with a resolution of 16.5 feet (5 meters), while the other camera records video that can resolve details as small as 3 feet (1 m) across. ![]() The Vancouver-based company UrtheCast (pronounced "Earthcast") has two HD cameras on the orbiting lab. HDEV isn't the only Earth-imaging project aboard on the International Space Station. ![]()
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