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@Astro_Soichi is sending back pictures - live - from ISS via Twitter and Twitpic:
- Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco, CA. Beautiful shadow :-) http://twitpic.com/10iitj
- Noctilucent clouds. Antarctic. Priceless. http://twitpic.com/10iiti
But wait - there's more yet to come from orbit: according to JT Creamer: RT @Astro_TJ: @space_pete Yes it's true: our internal cameras wlll stream to the Web beginning Monday! Wave when you see us!! :)
NASA's space tweets are part of a larger conversation, Government Computing News
"... the software upgrade that made it possible is pretty impressive. The system, which NASA calls the Crew Support LAN, taps into existing communications links -- a Ku satellite band with 3 megabits/sec upstream and 10 megabits/sec downstream -- to give astronauts Web access, along with the ability to better communicate with family and loved ones during their long stays on the space station. All that while traveling at 17,300 mph some 250 miles above the Earth."
Just curious, when participants in the Google Lunar X-Prize were notified by NOAA that they would need a permit to take any image of the earth, I'm wondering if independent astronauts not working on a specific study but sending Twitter pictures down on their own need the same style of NOAA Permit in response to the Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992?
http://rescommunis.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/noaa-open-letter-to-google-lunar-x-prize-participants
Obviously my thought is that requiring a permit to snap a picture out the window of the earth is pretty crazy... I can take pictures from the ground or from a plane, but if I do it from space I need to seek permission?
Additional information:
http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20080728/0205181805