Man, I've wanted this for years...

HD Cameras on Space Station to Provide 24/7 Feed of Earth (http://www.themarknews.com/news/?open=8460)

Footage of Earth taken from the International Space Station has produced some of the most striking, beautiful, and haunting videos of the planet. Soon, we could soon have a streaming high-definition feed of Earth as the station orbits the world, thanks to a little start-up called Urthecast. The California company is currently building super high-resolution cameras that will be sent to the Russian Space Agency to take them up to the ISS. If everything goes to plan, the feed could begin streaming as soon as early next year.

One of the partners in UrtheCast is a Canadian technology firm....

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(TheMarkNews (http://www.themarknews.com/news/?open=8460))

A shame that doing so requires turning our planet into a giant, orbiting billboard.

INVASION OF PRIVACY - lets sue them.. I do not want my life cast live on the net - unless i am being paid for and own the rights to it..

Project update - they're hoping to have these babies installed by the end of the year.... sadly, no real-time imaging. One-hour server delay, but still a heckuva show!

Watching The Earth From Space, Live, From The ISS (http://www.fastcompany.com/3007940/fast-feed/watching-earth-space-live-iss)

Urthecast says that two high-resolution cameras, one for video and one for stills, will be launched into space in October on a Russian rocket and bolted to the International Space Station's hull by the end of the month. Then, a few months later, they'll be turned on and start streaming content live to the Earth.

There will actually be a delay of about an hour before the images are shared with the world via Urthecast's site--due to the tricky issue of getting images transmitted down to the ground.

The imaging systems have about a one-meter resolution, which means they won't be able to see people--even cars will be just a few pixels across (far poorer resolution than spy satellites can see, for example). But, the cameras will be able to see things like crowds, stadium shows, and potentially even news events like plane crashes and floods.

(FastCompany (http://www.fastcompany.com/3007940/fast-feed/watching-earth-space-live-iss))