The space station is to take delivery of several ultra-high-definition cameras that will offer free access to live-streamed Earth imagery from 250 miles up.
The International Space Station is about to take delivery of several ultra-high-definition cameras that will offer free access to live-streamed Earth imagery from 250 miles up.
Recommended Videos Charles Black, the boss and founder of Sen, told BBC Radio on Thursday that one of the three cameras will over a wide-angle panoramic scene capturing sunrises and sunsets, another will point straight down for a tighter view revealing features as small as 197 feet across, and a third will be positioned to capture the arrivals and departures of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, and also Boeing’s Starliner capsule once it’s operational.
He added that astronauts who look down on Earth from the ISS often speak of a “cognitive shift that changes the way you think about the planet; you see the delicate thin blue atmosphere protecting us, and the environmental events and how the planet is changing every day; it’s a living, breathing world … and we want to look after it.”
An ISS-bound SpaceX Dragon capsule laden with vital supplies, science equipment, and Sen’s cameras, blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday and is scheduled to dock with the orbital outpost on Saturday.
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