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 (ISS) 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.
The 4K system is the work of a British firm called Sen, which already beams live video of Earth from a small satellite that it launched two years ago.
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 (60 meters) 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.
