> What part of it did you work on?=20

Very much on the periphery I'm afraid, the camera portion is a copy of prev=
ious ones we have built, similar to those used for GOES and SDO which take =
those fantastic photos of the sun. I think these are lower resolution than =
the previous ones. The actual sensors being used are certainly different to=
 those used previously.

The extent of my participation is preparing kits for manufacture and doing =
the inspections required. We have a number of Bright Young Things doing the=
 fancy design stuff.

> Will the (1 hour delayed) video stream be
> available to everyone? It's not clear to me whether the camera will have =
a
> fixed field of view or if it is controllable (i.e., pan/tilt,zoom) Is the=
 video
> stream going to be such high resolution that you can, without changing th=
e
> optical parameters, see an entire country but also "digital zoom" to 1met=
er
> resolution? It gives the impression that individual users will be able to=
 control
> the camera directly but that doesn't make any sense as far as I can see.

>From what we can make out there are a lot of smoke and mirrors still on th=
e Urthecast side of things as to just what the capabilities will be. I susp=
ect the video as presented represents the 'what we want to happen' whereas =
the 'what does work' may be a bit different. My understanding is there will=
 be some form of pan and tilt, but to what extent I don't know.




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