The Canadian company UrtheCast has images published that were shot with a new 4k camera on the International Space Station is confirmed. The 4k images as clips available on the website of UrtheCast, but there may also be videos be ordered.
UrtheCast has two cameras on the Russian Zvezda service module of the ISS confirm. Before that, they were two spacewalks totaling 14 hours. With the so-called Theia camera 25-megapixelfoto’s to be shot, that an area the width of 50km can be photographed, in which the resolution is 5 meters per pixel.
For the 4k images is the Iris-camera responsible. The 4k images are shot with a maximum of 60fps, and thanks to a rotating platform on which the camera is fixed focus for a minute on a certain area of approximately 10km wide be held. The resolution of Iris is 1 meter per pixel.
On his website, has UrtheCast already some democlips placed that the resolving power of the new Iris-camera show. So are the images of cities like London, Boston and Barcelona is so detailed that, for example, moving cars to see.
In the summer, wants to Urthecast images of his camera’s live stream, but also as clips to offer. This also includes images offered by Nasa’s high-definition earth-viewing camera. This has a full-hd resolution. Urthecast also aims, on a commercial basis images sell, for example, by the cameras on specific areas to focus. The company claims that it is doing so at much lower rates than existing providers of satellite imagery.
