On Jan. 27, two Russian Cosmonauts undertook a six hour spacewalk in order to install two new British-manufactured Earth imaging cameras to the Russian segment of the ISS. The initiative, announced in 2011, will allow anyone with an internet connection access to the near-live feed, which will provide higher quality results than the currently-installed standard definition cameras.
The two cameras, created in the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, UK, will traverse between latitudes of 51 degrees to -51 degrees, essentially between England and Chile and all that lies between. The five-meter (16.4-ft) resolution camera will be tasked with capturing strips of 40-km (25-mile) wide imagery throughout the year, while the one-meter (3.3-ft) resolution video camera will grab roughly 150 videos averaging 60 seconds in length in full 4K resolution.
The 4K camera will provide a resolution of one meter per pixel, while the medium resolution camera produces footage of five meters per pixel. The high resolution camera will be fully controllable with the ability to aim at fixed points on the Earth’s surface, allowing it to capture footage of events, such as war zones and weather systems.
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New ISS cameras set to provide high quality Earth views in real time
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