Venture's HD Cameras Bound For Station on Soyuz Nov. 21

摘要

UrtheCast Corp., the Canadian firm preparing to offer high-definition (HD) video imagery from the international space station, announced July 9 that its two cameras are scheduled to launch Nov. 21 on a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The cameras are scheduled to travel to the space station on the same Soyuz cargo flight as the Olympic torch, which is being sent into space for the first time on its journey to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The schedule for launching the Progress cargo tug carrying the Earth-monitoring cameras is not likely to be affected by the July 2 launch failure of a Russian Proton rocket because the Soyuz mission departs from a separate launch pad, UrtheCast officials said.