Calgary company building HD space cameras

Posted Jun 23, 2011 7:41 am.

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A Calgary company is building two new high-definition cameras that can stream images from the International Space Station.

Urthecast will make one high resolution and one medium resolution camera ready to operate next year.

According to The Calgary Herald, the live video will be streamed online in real time so people can watch Earth from space.

People will also be able to search for videos of a particular theme, or from a certain time.

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