Canon
The interactive demo allows you to take images from multiple locations, with each photo showing the location and altitude of the image. However, it uses pre-captured images, so you are not really taking live or unique photos. If it were live, the CE-SAT-1 would be rotating around the Earth at nearly 17,000 miles per hour, circling the globe in just over an hour and a half. The demo gives an idea of the satellite’s capabilities and resolution, however.
The experience is narrated by astronaut Marsha Ivins, who explains the purpose and design of the satellite. Microsatellites are much smaller and cheaper than regular satellites, and Canon hopes to build a billion dollar business around them by 2030. After launching the CE-SAT-1 in 2017, Canon tried to launch a CE- SAT-1B updated last summer. However, it was lost when RocketLab’s Electron rocket failed shortly after launch.