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Related: About this forumToday's spacewalk is currently on UStream
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(160,515 posts)Watch Spacewalkers Friday As They Install Earth Livestream Camera On Station
by Elizabeth Howell on December 26, 2013
For all you Earth observation geeks out there, we have some good news two Russian astronauts are going to install a camera on Friday (Dec. 27) that will beam live images of Earth back to your browser.
The UrtheCast camera is the headline task for Expedition 38 astronauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy to perform, on top of installing a foot restraint and doing some equipment swapouts. This spacewalk, by the way, is not related in any way to the two successful contingency ones earlier this week to replace a faulty pump on station.
The spacewalk is supposed to start at 8 a.m. EST (1 p.m. UTC) and will be carried live on NASA Television, which you can view in the media player above or at this alternate link. The spacewalk is scheduled for seven hours, but could be longer or shorter as events arise.
Imagine you have a nearly live Google Earth, but it isnt 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.
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/107517/watch-spacewalkers-live-friday-as-they-install-livestream-camera/#ixzz2ofpE6UzG
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)NASA UStream is currently carrying audio for this spacewalk; but no video.