{"id":118671,"date":"2021-01-19T11:23:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T19:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/canon-made-a-site-that-lets-you-take-photos-from-a-real-satellite"},"modified":"2021-01-19T11:23:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T19:23:33","slug":"canon-made-a-site-that-lets-you-take-photos-from-a-real-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/canon-made-a-site-that-lets-you-take-photos-from-a-real-satellite","title":{"rendered":"Canon made a site that lets you \u2018take photos\u2019 from a real satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/canon-made-a-site-that-lets-you-take-photos-from-a-real-satellite.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rather than releasing any new cameras for CES 2021, Canon is doing something different: Letting you take pictures from space. The company has unveiled an [interactive site](<a href=\"https:\/\/redefinethelimits.us\/space\/cornerstone\/experience\">https:\/\/redefinethelimits.us\/space\/cornerstone\/experience<\/a>) that allows you to use its CE-SAT-1 satellite, equipped with a lightly modified 5D Mark III DSLR, to grab simulated photos of locations including New York City, the Bahamas and Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Canon launched the wine barrel-sized microsatellite back in June of 2017. It holds an EOS 5D Mark III camera that\u2019s fitted with a 40 cm Cassegrain-type (mirror) 3720mm telescope. Orbiting at a 600 km orbit (375 miles), it provides about a 36-inch ground resolution within a 3\u00d72 mile frame, Canon claims. (By contrast, the world\u2019s highest-resolution satellite, [WorldView-4](<a href=\"https:\/\/apollomapping.com\/worldview-4-satellite-imagery?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8pSTqdud7gIVC5_VCh2KjA6NEAAYASAAEgLrT_D_BwE),\">https:\/\/apollomapping.com\/worldview-4-satellite-imagery?gcli\u2026rT_D_BwE),<\/a> can resolve down to 12 inches.) It also houses a PowerShot S110 for wider images.<\/p>\n<p>Take \u2018photos\u2019 of Earth from space with Canon\u2019s 5D Mark III camera.<\/p>\n<p>Canon.<\/p>\n<p>The interactive demo allows you take images from multiple locations, with each shot showing the location and altitude of the image. However, it uses pre-captured imagery, so you\u2019re not actually grabbing live or unique photos. If it was live, CE-SAT-1 would be zipping around the Earth at nearly 17, 000 miles per hour, circling the globe in just over an hour and half. The demonstration does give you a feel for the satellite\u2019s capabilities and resolution, however.<\/p>\n<p>The experience is narrated by astronaut Marsha Ivins, who explains the satellite\u2019s purpose and design. The microsatellites are much smaller and cheaper than regular satellites, and Canon hopes to build a [billion dollar business](<a href=\"https:\/\/en.canon-elec.co.jp\/space\/\">https:\/\/en.canon-elec.co.jp\/space\/<\/a>) around them by 2030. After launching the CE-SAT-1 in 2017, Canon attempted to launch an updated [CE-SAT-1B](<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/watch-rocket-lab-canon-satellite-launch-191456033.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/watch-rocket-lab-canon-satellite-launch-191456033.html<\/a>) last summer. However, it was lost when RocketLab\u2019s Electron rocket [failed](<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/rocket-lab-13th-mission-failure-142717244.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/rocket-lab-13th-mission-failure-142717244.html<\/a>) shortly after launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than releasing any new cameras for CES 2021, Canon is doing something different: Letting you take pictures from space. The company has unveiled an [interactive site](https:\/\/redefinethelimits.us\/space\/cornerstone\/experience) that allows you to use its CE-SAT-1 satellite, equipped with a lightly modified 5D Mark III DSLR, to grab simulated photos of locations including New York City, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1506,15,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-food","category-habitats","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}