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UrtheCast also aims to sell its imagery to a variety of customers, including government agencies interested in tracking resource use and private companies that want to keep tabs on their operations (and perhaps the operations of their competitors). Editor's Note: Live video from the International Space Station includes internal views when the crew is on-duty and Earth views at other times. UrtheCast released the first images from Theia last month and plans to begin streaming near-realtime views of Earth from orbit soon, bringing lots of viewers to their website. Visit the ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment (HDEV) on UStream or look for NASA Live: Earth Views From the Space Station on YouTube. These two cameras, which together cost $17 million, were installed by spacewalking cosmonauts in January. One of them, known as Theia, takes pictures with a resolution of 16.5 feet (5 meters), while the other camera records video that can resolve details as small as 3 feet (1 m) across. The Vancouver-based company UrtheCast (pronounced 'Earthcast') has two HD cameras on the orbiting lab. HDEV isn't the only Earth-imaging project aboard on the International Space Station.

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