Posted on 11/18/2013 2:08:10 PM PST by BenLurkin
If all goes well, the UrtheCast dual camera system will blast off in a Progress supply ship on Nov. 25, 2013.
This will be the world’s first ever high definition, live-streaming video platform of planet Earth from the International Space Station.
“Imagine you have a nearly live Google Earth, but it isn’t four year old data – you have data that is being refreshed all the time, with videos coming down over interesting areas where interesting events are going on, showing you what is changing, what is going on,” said George Tyc, the Chief Technology Officer at UrtheCast, in an interview with Universe Today earlier this year. “What we really hope to pull off is to change the paradigm, get the everyday person interacting and seeing the data coming down from space to see the Earth and how it is evolving over time in a way that isn’t available right now.”
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
Good! I can check to see who’s pickup is in my driveway. ;^)
The NSA can already do that.
A name that didn’t make one think “urethra”, at first glance, would have worked much better.
> Good! I can check to see who’s pickup is in my driveway. ;^)
You’ll have to calculate the time the satellite will be able to view your driveway at optimum angles to to be able to read the license plate though...lol
Named, no doubt, for Wendell Urth, from the Asimov stories.
bttt
Attention, people of Urthe! < /Idiocracy >
Hey, wait, who is that guy my wife is letting into the house? Why is she nude? Hey, no not my good Scotch!
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