Canon’s Tiny New Micro-Satellite Snaps Its First Photos From Space

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Canon's CE-SAT-IE micro-satellite has successfully snapped its first photo from space. The beautiful image shows California's coast.

Canon’s groundbreaking micro-satellite, CE-SAT-IE, has entered orbit and successfully communicated with the ground station at Canon Electronics’ Akagi Plant in Japan.

Two days later, the Canon PowerShot S110 compact digital camera mounted on the micro-satellite successfully photographed the Gulf of California for the first time. The camera is used as a secondary optical system for wide-area photography. The PowerShot S110 joins Canon’s high-resolution EOS R5 digital mirrorless camera, which serves as the micro-satellite’s primary optical system. The R5 is attached to a 400mm aperture telescope.

The CE-SAT-IE weighs 70 kilograms and is just 50 x 50 x 80 centimeters . Canon says it has developed the optical systems, numerous sensors, and actuators in-house, plus, of course, the pair of Canon cameras onboard.

 

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