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Real-time Colour Video Feed of Earth From ISS To Go Live in July
Incredible previews of London, Boston and Barcelona released
A continuous high-definition video steam of the Earth, taken from the International Space Station, is to go live in July.
UretheCast, the company responsible for the impressive feat, released videos of the very first full-colour HD images of Earth to show what it’s capable of. The unparalleled videos show London and Barcelona to a resolution of around 1m, so that cars and people can clearly be seen moving around.
The images were captured using an special ‘Iris’ ultra high-definition camera, which is mounted on the ISS on a steerable platform which means that the camera angle can be moved by a computer aboard the space station.
A secondary camera installed on the ISS – named Theia – films at 5-metre resolution.
UrtheCast’s co-founder and CEO explained: “With the ultimate goal of connecting the planet and highlighting what unites us all, we’re revealing a perspective of Earth from space that was previously reserved for a small few”.
The cameras from Vancouver-based UrtheCast were installed in the ISS by Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy during a space walk earlier this year.
UrtheCast paid the Russian space agency Rocosmos $100 billion for the opportunity to host its cameras, in exchange for the rights to all videos taken over Russia while UretheCast will hold the rights to all other imagery captured across the globe.
The ISS orbits the Earth around 15 times a day and the video cameras will be constantly streaming in real-time. There are plans to install two more cameras on the US portion of the ISS.
