Japanese photography giant Canon has launched a new interactive website that gives you the chance to “take pictures” of space.
Presented at CES 2021, the new site is based on Canon’s wine barrel-sized satellite, the CE-SAT-1, which launched into space in June 2017. The satellite carries a PowerShot S110 and an EOS 5D Mark III DSLR installed with a 40 cm Cassegrain 3720 mm telescope, and the company claims that in a 375-mile orbit, the images reach a 36-inch ground resolution within a 3 × 2 mile frame.
The entire experience on the site is narrated by astronaut Marsha Ivins, who explains what the satellite is for and how it was designed and built. You’ll be able to ‘take photos’ using images pre-captured by the CE-SAT-1, zoom around the world in multiple locations, and explore more about Canon’s space photography initiative, which it hopes to develop in a billion-dollar business. dollars by 2030.
To check out the interactive space photography experience yourself, visit the Canon website.
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