![]() That video, UrtheCast Chief Executive Scott Larson said, could be used in a variety of applications, from monitoring traffic flows to activity at ports. While Iris can take still images at a resolution of one meter per pixel, the company is emphasizing the camera’s ability to take video. Tyc said the camera can focus on a specific location for about a minute, depending on the path of the station relative to that point on the ground. ![]() The pointing platform is required for Iris so it can aim at a specific target as the ISS passes overhead. A medium-resolution camera, which provides images at five meters per pixel, entered commercial service last year, but problems with the pointing platform for Iris delayed its commissioning. The camera, called Iris, was one of two installed on the Russian segment of the ISS by cosmonauts in January 2014. That work included software updates to the pointing platform itself as well as to the image processing pipeline on the ground. It was one of the early issues we had,” said George Tyc, chief technology officer of Vancouver-based UrtheCast, in a media briefing here June 16. “We’ve been doing a lot of work to make the pointing platform more stable. The videos, taken of several cities, including Boston, London, and Barcelona, Spain, are intended to demonstrate that the company’s high-resolution camera has overcome technical problems and is ready to enter commercial service. ![]() NEW YORK - UrtheCast, the Canadian company that operates commercial cameras on the International Space Station, released June 17 the first high-definition video taken by one of its cameras there. ![]()
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