By Jonathan AmosScience correspondentVideo caption, A uncommon view: A cloudless UK and Ireland2 hours agoUltra high-definition cameras from a UK start-up will hitch a trip to the Worldwide Area Station later. The 4K system from SEN.COM might be hooked up to the entrance of the orbital outpost to seize what are anticipated to be some beautiful views of Earth.The London firm already streams reside video from a small satellite tv for pc it launched in 2022.Boss Charles Black says he plans to increase the corporate’s know-how to many extra places, together with the Moon.”Our purpose is to convey an entire new method of seeing area, Earth and the Moon,” he advised BBC Information. “We wish to put cameras in lunar orbit, on the lunar floor and on lunar rovers, filming astronauts as people return to the Moon. “We wish to inform that story.”The ISS cameras might be carried up on the newest US area company re-supply mission.Greater than 2.5 tonnes of meals, clothes, gear and scientific experiments are on account of launch atop a SpaceX rocket from Florida at 16:55 native time (20:55 GMT).On arrival, SEN’s digicam payload might be prepped by the station crew after which put via an airlock to be positioned on the Bartolomeo deck – a chunk of exterior construction linked to the European Columbus science module.The massive robotic CanadaArm-2 will do the manoeuvres, scheduled for Might. Video caption, The golden color of the Namibian desert in AfricaOne digicam will look straight forward on the horizon, capturing sunrises and sunsets, in addition to the northern and southern lights. A second digicam will level straight down, to deal with what’s occurring on Planet Earth. The capability scene measurement might be about 180km by 240km (110 miles by 150 miles). It should see options as small as 60m throughout. The controlling software program ought to be capable to alter the exposures in order that when the station strikes into darkness, metropolis lights might be seen.A 3rd digicam might be directed on the ahead docking level to report the comings and goings of area capsules – the SpaceX Dragon ship and the soon-to-debut Boeing Starliner.Video caption, The smoke from Canadian wildfiresThe plan is to stream 4K video – leaping between these cameras – roughly repeatedly. The information will come down via the European Area Company’s relay system, which bounces indicators to the bottom by way of high-throughput satellites positioned excessive above the area station.You may get a really feel for the kind of video anticipated from the samples on this web page. They had been captured by SEN’s ETV-A1 satellite tv for pc, which has been working for the previous two years at an altitude of 505km. Extra of those spacecraft are at present being assembled.Once more, it is a mixture of extensive and narrow-angle views. The London firm is monetising these merchandise, working, for instance, with movie and TV firms on documentaries.The agency can be hoping to engender curiosity from information organisations who may wish to mirror occasions another way, particularly if these occasions have international attain. Final yr’s Canadian wildfires can be an excellent instance. Seeing their hearth fronts and smoke plumes offers a a lot clearer sense of simply how large an space was burnt.Video caption, Flying over Interlaken and the Swiss AlpsSEN is under no circumstances the primary firm to maneuver into the “video from area” market, however Mr Black believes he can discover success by packaging the fabric in the suitable method. “Video from area is vital and might be large enterprise… as a result of real-time video has story-telling energy, and might ship insights about what’s occurring on to individuals, in the identical method Google does,” he mentioned. “Google Earth had over a billion downloads to take a look at static imagery, so a real-time dataset about Earth which tells the story of what is unfolding on Earth and in area proper now, which is totally searchable and makes use of synthetic intelligence and augmented actuality to point out insights, might be a mass information product for humanity. “No-one has addressed that market earlier than, and that is what we’re doing.”