![]() ![]() UrtheCast also aims to sell its imagery to a variety of customers, including government agencies interested in tracking resource use and private companies that want to keep tabs on their operations (and perhaps the operations of their competitors). ![]() UrtheCast released the first images from Theia last month and plans to begin streaming near-realtime views of Earth from orbit soon, bringing lots of viewers to their website. These two cameras, which together cost $17 million, were installed by spacewalking cosmonauts in January. One of them, known as Theia, takes pictures with a resolution of 16.5 feet (5 meters), while the other camera records video that can resolve details as small as 3 feet (1 m) across. The Vancouver-based company UrtheCast (pronounced "Earthcast") has two HD cameras on the orbiting lab. HDEV isn't the only Earth-imaging project aboard on the International Space Station. ![]()
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